25.540, Books: The grammar of standards: Bylinina

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Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2014 10:55:18
From: Martine Paulissen [lot at uu.nl]
Subject: The grammar of standards: Bylinina

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Title: The grammar of standards 
Subtitle: Judge-dependence, purpose-relativity, and comparison classes in degree
constructions

Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2014 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/

Book URL: http://www.lotpublications.nl/index3.html 

Author: Lisa Bylinina

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460931307 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 20.70

Abstract:

This dissertation explores the structure and semantics of constructions based
on the positive form of gradable adjectives, such as tall, long, interesting
or smart. Such forms – and constructions that are based on them – contain an
element of semantic indeterminacy regarding the standard of comparison that
they make reference to. At the same time, there are a number of phrases that
can participate in constructions with such adjectives and remove some of this
indeterminacy. Examples include ‘judge’-phrases, as in ‘The ride was fun for
John’; purpose-clauses, as in ‘This is a long book to assign’;
comparison-class phrases, such as ‘John is tall for a 4-year-old’. The
dissertation investigates these constructions, providing a syntactic and
semantic analysis for each of them, motivated by an array of empirical
cross-linguistic evidence. Despite the apparent similarity between these
‘standard-affecting’ phrases in terms of their overall interpretational
effect, the linguistic machinery behind these effects turns out to be very
different in each case upon closer examination. The linguistic perspective
taken in this dissertation on the problems of the standard of comparison in
the positive construction uncovers various intricacies of the standards of
gradable predicates and opens up new directions for studying the semantics of
adjectives and standards of comparison.

Linguistic Field(s): Semantics
                     Syntax
                     Typology

Written In: English  (eng)

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