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Scale structure, degree modification, and the semantics of gradable predicates
McNally, Louise, 1965-
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Kennedy, Christopher
. - : Linguistic Society of America
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Deriving the scalar structure of deverbal adjectives
McNally, Louise, 1965-
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Kennedy, Christopher
. - : Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
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Color, context, and compositionality
Kennedy, Christopher
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McNally, Louise, 1965-
. - : Springer
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Color adjectives have played a central role in work on language typology and/nvariation, but there has been relatively little investigation of their meanings by researchers/nin formal semantics. This is particularly surprising given the fact that color terms have/nbeen at the center of debates in the philosophy of language over foundational questions,/nin particular whether the idea of a compositional, truth-conditional theory of natural language semantics is even coherent. The challenge presented by color terms is articulated in/nparticular detail in the work of Charles Travis. Travis argues that structurally isomorphic/nsentences containing color adjectives can shift truth value from context to context depending on how they are used and in the absence of effects of vagueness or ambiguity/polysemy,/nand concludes that a deterministic mapping from structures to truth conditions is impossible. The goal of this paper is to provide a linguistic perspective on this issue, which we/nbelieve defuses Travis’ challenge. We provide empirical arguments that color adjectives/nare in fact ambiguous between gradable and nongradable interpretations, and that this simple ambiguity, together with independently motivated options concerning scalar dimension/nwithin the gradable reading accounts for the Travis facts in a simpler, more constrained, and/nthus ultimately more successful fashion than recent contextualist analyses such as those in/nSzabó (2001) or Rothschild and Segal (forthcoming).
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Gramàtica comparada i general -- Adjectiu
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Gramàtica comparada i general -- Semàntica
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From event structure to scale structure: degree modification in deverbal adjectives
McNally, Louise, 1965-
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Kennedy, Christopher
. - : Cornell University
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