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1 online resource. |
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polychrome |
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Key topics in semantics and pragmatics
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Key topics in semantics and pragmatics.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1. Preliminaries -- 1.1. Two problems -- 1.2. What this book is and isn't -- 1.3. Background assumptions -- 1.3.1. Glossing logical notation -- 1.3.2. Theoretical framework -- 1.3.3. Notational and typographical conventions -- 1.4. What, if anything, is modification? -- 1.5. Roadmap -- 2. lexical semantics of adjectives: more than just scales -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. How adjectives and nouns combine: a typology -- 2.2.1. Intersective interpretations -- 2.2.2. Subsective interpretations -- 2.2.3. Apparently subsective intersective interpretations -- 2.2.4. Ordinary non-subsective adjectives -- 2.2.5. Privative adjectives, which may not exist -- 2.3. type of adjectives and the nature of subsectivity -- 2.3.1. How powerful are adjectives? -- 2.3.2. Siegel: the Doublet Theory -- 2.3.3. Larson: events inside the nominal extended projection -- 2.3.4. implicit-argument approach -- 2.3.5. How much power is too much? Impossible adjectives -- 2.4. menagerie of adjectives -- 2.4.1. word about adjective classification -- 2.4.2. Temporal-ordering adjectives -- 2.4.3. Classificatory/relational adjectives -- 2.4.4. trouble with stone lions -- 2.4.5. attributive-with-infinitive construction -- 2.4.6. Adnominal degree modifiers -- 2.5. Adjectives where they have no right to be: adverbial readings -- 2.5.1. scope puzzle -- 2.5.2. Frequency adjectives: the facts -- 2.5.3. adverbial reading of frequency adjectives -- 2.5.4. internal reading of frequency adjectives -- 2.5.5. Average Americans and parasitic scope -- 2.5.6. Sameness and difference -- 2.5.7. Other adverbial readings and the bigger picture -- 2.6. Adjective position and syntactic issues -- 2.6.1. Attributive vs. predicative, prenominal vs. postnominal -- 2.6.2. Indirect modification -- 2.6.3. Stage-level/individual-level contrasts -- 2.6.4. focus position? -- 2.7. What is it to be an adjective? -- 2.8. Questions for further reflection and discussion -- 2.9. Suggestions for further reading -- 3. Vagueness, degrees, and gradable predicates -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Vagueness -- 3.2.1. Identifying vagueness -- 3.2.2. Vagueness vs. ambiguity -- 3.2.3. Vagueness vs. imprecision -- 3.2.4. Some foundational questions -- 3.3. Theories of vagueness and gradability: a false start -- 3.3.1. Three approaches -- 3.3.2. Fuzzy logic -- 3.4. inherent vagueness approach -- 3.4.1. Extension gaps -- 3.4.2. Precisification and supertruth -- 3.4.3. Comparatives -- 3.4.4. Degree words -- 3.4.5. Degree functions and comparatives revisited -- 3.5. degree-based approach -- 3.5.1. Degrees -- 3.5.2. Gradable predicates -- 3.5.3. Borderline cases and context-dependence -- 3.5.4. tautology and contradiction issue -- 3.5.5. Comparatives -- 3.5.6. Degree words -- 3.5.7. Varieties of degrees -- 3.6. Degree or not degree? That is the question -- 3.7. Scales and the lexical semantics of adjectives -- 3.7.1. Antonyms -- 3.7.2. Open and closed scales -- 3.7.3. Dimensional and non-dimensional adjectives -- 3.7.4. Extreme adjectives -- 3.7.5. Gradable modal adjectives -- 3.7.6. On scales and categories -- 3.8. Questions for further reflection and discussion -- 3.9. Suggestions for further reading -- 4. Comparatives and their kin -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. syntax and semantics of the extended AP -- 4.2.1. Getting terminology out of the way -- 4.2.2. unpronounced in comparative clauses -- 4.2.3. First steps -- 4.2.4. big DegP view -- 4.2.5. small DegP view -- 4.2.6. Scope and degree operators -- 4.2.7. Russell ambiguity -- 4.2.8. Quantification and comparative clauses -- 4.3. Other degree constructions -- 4.3.1. Differential comparatives and measure phrases -- 4.3.2. Equatives -- 4.3.3. Superlatives -- 4.3.4. Sufficiency and excess -- 4.3.5. Degree exclamatives and degree questions -- 4.3.6. Metalinguistic comparatives -- 4.3.7. Comparison of deviation -- 4.3.8. Indirect comparison -- 4.4. Neutralization and positive-entailingness -- 4.5. crosslinguistic picture -- 4.5.1. Measure phrases -- 4.5.2. Comparison strategies -- 4.5.3. How much degree is there in your degree constructions? -- 4.6. Questions for further reflection and discussion -- 4.7. Suggestions for further reading -- 5. Adverbs -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Classifying adverbials -- 5.3. compositional puzzle -- 5.3.1. Modifiers of propositions? -- 5.3.2. Subject-oriented adverbs and the predicate-modifier approach -- 5.3.3. Problems for the intersective approach -- 5.3.4. Davidsonian events: the intersective approach redeemed -- 5.4. Manner and subject orientation -- 5.4.1. Augmentation and passive-sensitivity -- 5.4.2. Neo-Davidsonian strategy and thematic roles -- 5.4.3. Comparison classes and related tools -- 5.4.4. bottom-up analytical strategy -- 5.4.5. Topic-orientation -- 5.4.6. Is there such a thing as a manner? -- 5.5. Speaker-oriented adverbials -- 5.5.1. Speech-act adverbials -- 5.5.2. Evaluative adverbs -- 5.5.3. Modal adverbs -- 5.5.4. Polarity -- 5.6. Locative adverbials -- 5.6.1. Types and positions of locative adverbials -- 5.6.2. Vector Space Semantics -- 5.7. Adverbs as modifiers of adjectives -- 5.8. Phenomena we will mostly set aside -- 5.8.1. Temporal adverbials -- 5.8.2. Adverbs of quantification -- 5.9. Adverb order revisited -- 5.10. Questions for further reflection and discussion -- 5.11. Suggestions for further reading -- 6. Crosscategorial concerns -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. Amounts and cardinality scales -- 6.2.1. Quantity adjectives and number words -- 6.2.2. Amount comparatives -- 6.3. Gradability and non-adjectival predicates -- 6.3.1. Verbal gradability -- 6.3.2. Nominal gradability -- 6.4. Hedging and reinforcing across categories -- 6.5. Nonrestrictive modifiers -- 6.6. Predicates of personal taste -- 6.7. Questions for further reflection and discussion -- 6.8. Suggestions for further reading -- 7. Taking stock -- 7.1. Back to the beginning -- 7.2. Where to from here? |
| Summary |
An accessible guide to the linguistic semantics of adjectives, adverbs, gradability, vagueness, comparatives, and modification more generally. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Adverbials.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Adverbials. |
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Semantics.
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Semantics. |
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Semantics (Philosophy)
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Semantics (Philosophy) |
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Electronic books.
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Print version: Morzycki, Marcin. Modification 9781107009752 (DLC) 2015020026 (OCoLC)912507687 |
| ISBN |
9781316414187 (electronic book) |
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1316414183 (electronic book) |
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9780511842184 |
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051184218X |
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9781107009752 |
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1107009758 |
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40025521504 |
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