Projecting the adjective: the syntax and semantics of gradability and comparison
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New York [u.a.]
Garland
1999
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CONTENTS
PREFACE XI
INTRODUCTION XIII
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS XIX
CHAPTER 1: GRADABLE ADJECTIVES 3
1.1 THE SEMANTIC CHARACTERISTICS OF GRADABLE ADJECTIVES . . .. 4 1.1.1
VAGUENESS 4
1.1.2 INDETERMINACY AND THE DIMENSIONAL PARAMETER .. 12 1.1.3
INCOMMENSURABILITY 15
1.1.4 POLARITY 17
1.1.5 SUMMARY 22
1.2 THE VAGUE PREDICATE ANALYSIS 23
1.2.1 OVERVIEW 23
1.2.2 COMPARATIVES 27
1.2.3 PROBLEMS WITH THE VAGUE PREDICATE ANALYSIS . .. 31
1.2.4 SUMMARY 41
1.3 THE SCALAR ANALYSIS 42
1.3.1 DEGREE ARGUMENTS 43
1.3.2 COMPARATIVES 45
1.3.3 IMPROVING ON THE VAGUE PREDICATE ANALYSIS . . .. 47
IMAGE 2
1.3.4 SUMMARY 56
1.4 COMPARATIVES AND SCOPE 57
1.4.1 NEGATION 59
1.4.2 DISTRIBUTIVE QUANTIFIERS 61
1.4.3 INTENSIONAL CONTEXTS 65
1.4.4 SUMMARY 68
1.4.5 COMPARATIVES AS GENERALIZED QUANTIFIERS 69 1.5 CONCLUSION 73
NOTES TO CHAPTER 1 74
CHAPTER 2: PROJECTING THE ADJECTIVE 83
2.1 MEASURE FUNCTIONS AND DEGREE CONSTRUCTIONS 84 2.1.1 PUZZLES 84
2.1.2 IDENTIFYING THE STANDARD 88
2.1.3 MEASURE FUNCTIONS 91
2.1.4 DEGREE CONSTRUCTIONS 95
2.1.5 EVALUATION 102
2.1.6 HISTORICAL CONTEXT 105
2.2 THE EXTENDED PROJECTION OF A 108
2.3 ABSOLUTE CONSTRUCTIONS 113
2.3.1 OVERVIEW 113
2.3.2 IMPLICIT STANDARDS AND COMPARISON CLASSES . . .. 117 2.4
COMPARATIVES 125
2.4.1 INITIAL OBSERVATIONS AND QUESTIONS 125
2.4.2 COMPARATIVE DELETION 134
2.4.3 PHRASAL COMPARATIVES 150
2.4.4 THE PHRASAL/CLAUSAL DISTINCTION AND THE SCOPE OF THE STANDARD 161
2.4.5 COMPARATIVES WITH LESS 163
2.4.6 COMPARATIVE AND ABSOLUTE 164
2.4.7 CURRENT RESULTS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS 166
2.5 CONCLUSION 167
NOTES TO CHAPTER 2 170
CHAPTER 3: POLAR OPPOSITION AND THE ONTOLOGY OF COMPARISON . . 181 3.1
COMPARISON AND POLAR OPPOSITION 182
3.1.1 THE ALGEBRA OF DEGREES 182
3.1.2 DEGREES AND POLAR OPPOSITION 183
IMAGE 3
3.1.3 CROSS-POLAR ANOMALY 187
3.1.4 ON THE UNAVAILABILITY OF AN INCOMMENSURABILITY EXPLANATION 189
3.1.5 THE ALGEBRA OF EXTENTS 191
3.1.6 EXTENTS AND POLAR OPPOSITION 195
3.1.7 CROSS-POLAR ANOMALY REVISITED 198
3.1.8 THE DISTRIBUTION OF MEASURE PHRASES 203
3.1.9 POSITIVES THAT LOOK LIKE NEGATIVES 205
3.1.10 SUMMARY 207
3.2 COMPARISON OF DEVIATION 208
3.2.1 THE SEMANTIC CHARACTERISTICS OF COMPARISON OF DEVIATION 208
3.2.2 DIFFERENTIAL EXTENTS AND COMPARISON OF DEVIATION 210 3.2.3 SUMMARY
214
3.3 THE LOGICAL POLARITY OF GRADABLE ADJECTIVES 214 3.3.1 THE
MONOTONICITY PROPERTIES OF POLAR ADJECTIVES 214 3.3.2 DEGREES AND
MONOTONICITY 216
3.3.3 EXTENTS AND MONOTONICITY 217
3.3.4 SUMMARY 219
3.4 CONCLUSION 219
NOTES TO CHAPTER 3 221
CONCLUSION 227
BIBLIOGRAPHY 231
INDEX 239
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