The meaning of more / Alexis Wellwood.

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 individu...

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Main Author: Wellwood, Alexis (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Series:Oxford linguistics.
Oxford studies in semantics and pragmatics ; 12.
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