The relative role of property type and scale structure in explaining the behavior of gradable adjectives

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• dc.contributor.author McNally, Louise, 1965-ca
• dc.date.accessioned 2018-03-12T09:57:35Z
• dc.date.available 2018-03-12T09:57:35Z
• dc.date.issued 2011
• dc.description.abstract Kennedy (2007) proposes a semantics for positive form adjectives on which the standard for ascribing an adjective A makes the individuals that are A stand out from those that are not. To account for the di erences between absolute and relative adjectives, Kennedy posits that the maximal and minimal degrees on closed scales naturally make individuals stand out in a way that degrees found away from the endpoints of a scale cannot. I argue that the ability of a degree to make individuals stand out is due less to scale structure than to the nature of the property the adjective describes. Thus, degrees that are not endpoints can behave like absolute standards as long as the application criteria for the property are clear. I relate the identi ability of such criteria to whether the property ascription can be modeled in terms of rule- vs. similarity-based classi cation (see e.g. Hahn and Chater, 1998).en
• dc.description.sponsorship The work reported here was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation under grant HUM2007-60599/FILO and by a Fundació ICREA Academia award.en
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• dc.identifier.citation McNally L. The relative role of property type and scale structure in explaining the behavior of gradable adjectives. In: Nouwen R, Van Rooij R, Sauerland U, Schmitz HC, editors. Vagueness in Communication. International Workshop, ViC 2009 held as part of ESSLLI 2009; 2009 Jul 20-24; Bordeaux, France. Berlin: Springer; 2011. p. 151-68. (LNCS, no. 6517). DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-18446-8_9
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18446-8_9
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/34083
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Springerca
• dc.relation.ispartof In: Nouwen R, Van Rooij R, Sauerland U, Schmitz HC, editors. Vagueness in Communication. International Workshop, ViC 2009 held as part of ESSLLI 2009; 2009 Jul 20-24; Bordeaux, France. Berlin: Springer; 2011. p. 151-68. (LNCS, no. 6517). DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-18446-8_9
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/2PN/HUM2007-60599
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• dc.subject.keyword Semanticsen
• dc.subject.keyword Adjectivesen
• dc.subject.keyword Gradabilityen
• dc.subject.keyword Sorites paradoxen
• dc.subject.keyword Comparison classen
• dc.subject.keyword Classificationen
• dc.subject.keyword Vaguenessen
• dc.title The relative role of property type and scale structure in explaining the behavior of gradable adjectivesca
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