The Semantics of Gradability, Vagueness, and Scale Structure Experimental Perspectives /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Castroviejo, Elena (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), McNally, Louise (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Weidman Sassoon, Galit (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Language, Cognition, and Mind, 4
• Subjects: Semantics.; Cognitive psychology.; Pragmatics.; Psycholinguistics.; Cognitive Psychology.

This volume is the first to focus specifically on experimental studies of the semantics of gradability, scale structure and vagueness. It presents support for and challenges to current formal analyses of these phenomena in view of experimentally collected data, highlighting the ways semantic and pra...