Measurements, numerals and scales : essays in honour of Stephanie Solt /: essays in honour of Stephanie Solt. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• 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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