Meaning of More

(Part of the Oxford Studies in Semantics and Pragmatics Series)

by Alexis Wellwood

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This book reimagines the compositional semantics of comparative sentences using words such as more, as, too, and others. The book's central thesis entails a rejection of a fundamental assumption of degree semantic frameworks: that gradable adjectives like tall lexicalize functions from individuals to degrees, i.e., measure functions.

Alexis Wellwood argues that comparative expressions in English themselves introduce�measure functions;...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0198804660

ISBN13:9780198804666

Release Date:November 2019

Publisher:Oxford Univ PR

Length:230 Pages

Weight:1.00 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.7" x 9.6"

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