This book presents a study of the connections between vagueness and gradability, and their different manifestations in adjectives (morphological gradability effects) and nouns (typicality effects). It addresses two opposing theoretical approaches from within formal semantics and…
This text presents research into the manifestations of vagueness and gradability in nouns vs. adjectives, from both a psychological and a formal semantic perspective. Psychological notions are incorporated into truth conditional semantics. The result is a comprehensive unified a…
This text presents research into the manifestations of vagueness and gradability in nouns vs. adjectives, from both a psychological and a formal semantic perspective. Psychological notions are incorporated into truth conditional semantics. The result is a comprehensive unified a…
