Projecting the Adjective : The Syntax and Semantics of Gradability and Comparison

by Christopher Kennedy

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Format Hardback or Cased Book

Book Series Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics

ISBN-10 0815333498

ISBN-13 9780815333494

Publisher Taylor & Francis Inc

Imprint Routledge

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Mar 1st, 1999

Print length 264 Pages

Weight 650 grams

Product Classification: Grammar, syntax & morphology

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This text investigates the core meaning and syntactic distribution of gradable adjectives: adjectives such as "long", "short", "bright" and "dim", with respect to which objects can be ordered and compared.

First Published in 1999. The main argument presented in this volume is that gradable adjectives like bright, dense and short denote measure functions- functions from objects to abstract representations of measurement, or scales and degrees. This proposal is shown to provide a foundation for principled explanations of a wide range of syntactic and semantic properties of gradable adjectives and the constructions in which they appear, ranging from the syntactic distribution of gradable adjectives to the scopal characteristics of comparatives and the empirical effects of adjectival polarity.

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