Semantics of Gradability, Vagueness, and Scale Structure

Experimental Perspectives

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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This volume is the first to focus specifically on experimental studies of the semantics of gradability, scale structure and vagueness.

Gradability, Vagueness, and Scale Structure: From the Armchair to the Lab, Elena Castroviejo, Louise McNally, Galit W. Sassoon.- Are Gaps Preferred to Gluts? A closer look at borderline contradictions, Paul Egré, Jérémy Zehr.- Multidimensionality, subjectivity and scales: Experimental evidence, Stephanie Solt.- Online processing of “real” and “fake”: The cost of being too strong, Petra Schumacher, Patrick Brandt, Hanna Weiland-Breckle.- Education as a source of vagueness in criteria and degree, Steven Verheyen, Gert Storms.- Intensification, gradability and social perception: The case of totally, Andrea Beltrama.- Perceived Informativity and Referential Effects of Contrast in Adjectivally Modified NPs, Helena Aparicio, Chris Kennedy, Ming Xiang.- Modified fractions, granularity and scale structure, Chris Cummins.- Decomposition and processing of negative adjectival comparatives, Barbara M. Tomaszewicz, Daniel Tucker, Alexis Wellwood.- Cumulative comparison: Experimental evidence for degree cumulation, Rick Nouwen, Jakub Dotlačil.