The meaning of more /

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 individu...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Wellwood, Alexis (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Series:	Oxford linguistics. Oxford studies in semantics and pragmatics ; 12.
Subjects:	English language > Semantics. Pragmatics. Pragmatique. pragmatics. English language > Semantics Pragmatics Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book