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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: meaning of more
  name:
    name part: Wellwood, Alexis
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (vi, 216 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: 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. 0Alexis Wellwood argues that comparative expressions in English themselves introduce measure functions; this is the case whether that morphology targets adjectives, as intaller or more intelligent; nouns, as in more coffee, more coffees; verbs, such as run more, jump more; or expressions of other categories. Furthermore, she suggests that expressions that comfortably and meaningfully appear in the comparative form should be distinguished from those that do not in terms of a general notion of "measurability": a measurable predicate has a domain of application with non-trivial structure. This notion unifies the independently motivated distinctions between, for example, gradable and non-gradable adjectives, mass and count nouns, singular and plural noun phrases, and telic and atelic verb phrases. Based on careful examination of the distribution of dimensions for comparison within the class of measurable predicates, she ties the selection of measure functions to the specific nature and structure of the domain entities targeted for measurement.0The book ultimately explores how, precisely, we should understand semantic theories that invoke the "nature" of domain entities: does the theory depend for its explanation on features of metaphysical reality, or something else? Such questions are especially pertinent in light of a growing body of research in cognitive science exploring the understanding and acquisition of comparative sentences.
  note: Alexis Wellwood.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: English language
    topic: Semantics
  subject:
    topic: Pragmatics
  subject:
    topic: Pragmatique
  subject:
    topic: pragmatics
  subject:
    topic: English language
    topic: Semantics
  subject:
    topic: Pragmatics
  classification: PE1585 .W45 2019
  classification: 420.143
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    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2019
      edition: First edition.
    identifier: (DLC) 2019933015
    identifier: (OCoLC)1079410197
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