Vagueness, gradability and typicality: the interpretation of adjectives and nouns

Authors
  • G.W. Sassoon
Publication date 2013
ISBN
  • 9781781902639
Series Current research in the semantics/pragmatics interface, 27
Number of pages 432
Publisher Leiden: Brill
Organisations
  • Interfacultary Research - Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
Abstract This text presents research into the manifestations of vagueness and gradability in nouns vs. adjectives, from both a psychological and a formal semantic perspective. Psychological notions are incorporated into truth conditional semantics. The result is a comprehensive unified approach.
Document type Book
Note Available in university library UvA
Language English
Published at
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004248588 (Final published version)
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