Lectures on the Syntax and Semantics of Gradability and Comparison
Handouts for Kyudai University Intensive Class
28 August - 1 September, 2000
An overview of the syntax and semantics of gradable predicates in English
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A typology of comparative constructions
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Comparative deletion
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Case and identity in comparative deletion
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Polar opposition and the ontology of `degrees'
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Scale structure and the semantics of degree modification
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Telicity corrresponds to degree of change
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Last updated 14 August, 2000.