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On the semantics of comparison across categories

  • Autores: Alexis Wellwood
  • Localización: Linguistics and philosophy, ISSN 0165-0157, Vol. 38, Nº 1, 2015, págs. 67-101
  • Idioma: inglés
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  • Resumen
    • This paper explores the hypothesis that all comparative sentences-- nominal, verbal, and adjectival--contain instances of a single morpheme that compositionally introduces degrees. This morpheme, sometimes pronounced much, semantically contributes a structure-preserving map from entities, events, or states, to their measures along various dimensions. A major goal of the paper is to argue that the differences in dimensionality observed across domains are a consequence of what is measured, as opposed to which expression introduces the measurement. The resulting theory has a number of interesting properties. It characterizes the notion of 'measurement' uniformly across comparative constructions, in terms of non-trivial structure preservation. It unifies the distinctions between mass/count nouns and atelic/telic verb phrases with that between gradable and non-gradable adjectives. Finally, it affords a uniform characterization of semantically anomalous comparisons across categories


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