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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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This seminar will investigate the expression of gradability, comparison and degree in natural language. The course will address the following major issues, though we may also include other topics according to the interests and direction of the class:
The underlying semantic representation of expressions of degree and the linguistic signif
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- linguistics and philosophy
- semantics of grading and degree
- vague predicates
- degrees relations
- scale structure
- degree modification
- relative gradable adjectives
- absolute gradable adjectives
- standard of comparison
- scope ambiguities
- superlatives
- polar opposition
- negative polarity
- comparative quantifiers
- partitives
- telicity
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Description:This seminar will investigate the expression of gradability, comparison and degree in natural language. The course will address the following major issues, though we may also include other topics according to the interests and direction of the class: The underlying semantic representation of expressions of degree and the linguistic signif
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Description:This seminar will investigate the expression of gradability, comparison and degree in natural language. The course will address the following major issues, though we may also include other topics according to the interests and direction of the class: The underlying semantic representation of expressions of degree and the linguistic signif
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Description:This seminar will investigate the expression of gradability, comparison and degree in natural language. The course will address the following major issues, though we may also include other topics according to the interests and direction of the class: The underlying semantic representation of expressions of degree and the linguistic signif
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