29.758, Books: Gradability in Natural Language: Burnett

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Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 13:37:27
From: Celine Aenlle-Rocha [Celine.Aenlle-Rocha at oup.com]
Subject: Gradability in Natural Language: Burnett

 


Title: Gradability in Natural Language 
Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/gradability-in-natural-language-9780198724803 


Author: Heather Burnett

Paperback: ISBN:  9780198724803 Pages:  Price: ----  


Abstract:

This book presents a new theory of the relationship between vagueness,
context-sensitivity, gradability, and scale structure in natural language.
Heather Burnett argues that it is possible to distinguish between particular
subclasses of adjectival predicates--relative adjectives like tall, total
adjectives like dry, partial adjectives like wet, and non-scalar adjectives
like hexagonal--on the basis of how their criteria of application vary
depending on the context; how they display the characteristic properties of
vague language; and what the properties of their associated orders are. It has
been known for a long time that there exist empirical connections between
context-sensitivity, vagueness, and scale structure; however, a formal system
that expresses these connections had yet to be developed.

This volume sets out a new logical system, called DelTCS, that brings together
insights from the Delineation Semantics framework and from the Tolerant,
Classical, Strict non-classical framework, to arrive at a full theory of
gradability and scale structure in the adjectival domain. The analysis is
further extended to examine vagueness and gradability associated with
particular classes of determiner phrases, showing that the correspondences
that exist between the major adjectival scale structure classes and subclasses
of determiner phrases can also be captured within the DelTCS system.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Semantics


Written In: English  (eng)

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