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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Alexis Wellwood |
ISBN: | 9780198804659 0198804652 9780198804666 0198804660 |
OCLC Number: | 1079410197 |
Description: | vi, 216 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
Contents: | Introduction -- Measurement and degrees -- Measureing stuff and process -- Measuring states -- Measuring pluralities -- Measuring occasions -- Measuring accuracy -- Limiting theory -- Beyond semantics. |
Series Title: | Oxford linguistics.; Oxford studies in semantics and pragmatics, 12. |
Responsibility: | Alexis Wellwood. |
Abstract:
This book examines the semantics of comparative constructions using words such as more, as, too, and so on, and proposes a new account that rejects a fundamental assumption of the degree semantics framework. The findings have implications not only for semantics but also for language acquisition and cognitive science more broadly.
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