Measurements, numerals and scales : essays in honour of Stephanie Solt /: essays in honour of Stephanie Solt. (2021)
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- Title:
- Measurements, numerals and scales : essays in honour of Stephanie Solt /: essays in honour of Stephanie Solt. (2021)
- Main Title:
- Measurements, numerals and scales : essays in honour of Stephanie Solt
- Further Information:
- Note: Edited by Nicole Gotzner, Uli Sauerland.
- Editors:
- Gotzner, Nicole
Sauerland, Uli - Other Names:
- Solt, Stephanie honouree.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Partitives, Comparatives and Proportional Measurement.- Chapter 3. Modified Numerals, Vagueness, and Scale Granularity.- Chapter 4. Uncertainty, quantity and relevance inferences from modified numerals.- Chapter 5. Around 'around'.- Chapter 6. Evaluative intensification and positive polarity: Catalan WELL as a case study.- Chapter 7. She is brilliant! Distinguishing different readings of relative adjectives.- Chapter 8. Numerals denote degree quantifiers: Evidence from child language.- Chapter 9. Number, Numbers and the Mass/Count Distinction in Daakie (Ambrym, Vanuatu).- Chapter 10. Representing measurement: The view from nominal polysemy.- Chapter 11. On the status of post-nominal Q superlatives in Romanian.- Chapter 12. Unknown numbers.- Chapter 13. Some speculative remarks on the semantics of money phrases.- Chapter 14. Quantifying the register of German quantificational expressions: A corpus based study.- Chapter 15. Domain-restricted measure functions and the extent readings of relative measures.- Chapter 16. Amazing-hodo.- Chapter 17. A novel probabilistic approach to linguistic imprecision.- Chapter 18. Modification of measure nouns.
- Publisher Details:
- Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:
- 2021
- Extent:
- 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
- Subjects:
- 401.43
Semantics
Pragmatics - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9783030733230
- Related ISBNs:
- 9783030733223
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