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Building Gradable Adjectival Passives
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In: Sinn und Bedeutung; Bd. 16 Nr. 1 (2012): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 16; 253-264 ; Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung; Vol 16 No 1 (2012): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 16; 253-264 ; 2629-6055 (2019)
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Vague predicates, crisp judgments
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In: Sinn und Bedeutung; Bd. 23 Nr. 1 (2019): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 23; 347-364 ; Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung; Vol 23 No 1 (2019): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 23; 347-364 ; 2629-6055 (2019)
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Nez Perce is a language with a dedicated comparative morpheme and crisp judgments in its comparatives, but with no means to express differential measurement in its comparative. These data can be captured by two different types of analyses: either Nez Perce has a negative setting of the Degree Semantics Parameter ([±DSP]) (Beck et al., 2009), along with a comparative operator that allows manipulation of context (Klein, 1980), or it has a positive setting of said parameter, but the comparative operator does not provide a slot for a differential degree argument. We show that the “degreeless” analysis of gradable adjectives in Nez Perce provides a unified and simple explanation for a cluster of additional properties of the language. At the same time, our findings draw attention to hitherto unattested variation within degreeless languages: other [-DSP] languages like Motu (Beck et al., 2009), Washo (Bochnak, 2015) and Warlpiri (Bowler, 2016) lack the Klein-style comparative operator present in Nez Perce.
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URL: https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/sub/index.php/sub/article/view/537 https://doi.org/10.18148/sub/2019.v23i1.537
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How do Degrees Enter the Grammar? Language Change in Samoan from [-DSP] to [+DSP] ...
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How do Degrees Enter the Grammar? Language Change in Samoan from [-DSP] to [+DSP]
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Context and Composition: How Presuppositions Restrict the Interpretation of Free Variables ...
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Context and Composition: How Presuppositions Restrict the Interpretation of Free Variables
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