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037 _bTaylor & Francis
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100 1 _aChristopher Kennedy
245 1 0 _aProjecting the Adjective
_bThe Syntax and Semantics of Gradability and Comparison
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260 _aOxford
_bRoutledge
_c20160205
300 _a264 p
520 _bFirst Published in 1999. The main argument presented in this volume is that gradable adjectives like bright, dense and short denote measure functions- functions from objects to abstract representations of measurement, or scales and degrees. This proposal is shown to provide a foundation for principled explanations of a wide range of syntactic and semantic properties of gradable adjectives and the constructions in which they appear, ranging from the syntactic distribution of gradable adjectives to the scopal characteristics of comparatives and the empirical effects of adjectival polarity.
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