The Semantics of Gradability, Vagueness, and Scale Structure Experimental Perspectives /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Castroviejo, Elena (Editor), McNally, Louise (Editor), Weidman Sassoon, Galit (Editor)
Summary:VI, 293 p.
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Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Series:Language, Cognition, and Mind, 4
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77791-7
Format: Electronic Book
Table of Contents:
  • 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.