Gradability in Natural Language: Logical and Grammatical Foundations

by Heather Burnett

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198724802
• ISBN13: 9780198724803
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: OUP UK
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.7" x 9.6"