Vagueness, Gradability and Typicality - The Interpretation of Adjectives and Nouns

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 cognitive psychology.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Galit W. Sassoon (Ph.D., Tel-Aviv University) is senior lecturer at Bar Ilan University. She has a main interest in language and cognition, in particular formal semantics, the psycholinguistics of semantics and pragmatics, and the cognitive basis of semantic and pragmatic concepts. Her research stresses empirical approaches to evaluating the basis of formal semantic distinctions, concentrating on empirical work with large corpora, converged with experimental approaches, including, mainly, surveys of acceptability judgments.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Galit Weidman Sassoon
• Verlag: Brill
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 14.03.2013
• EAN: 9781781902639
• ISBN: 978-1-78190-263-9
• Seiten: 446
• Abmessung: 160 mm x 241 mm x 28 mm
• Gewicht: 794 g
• Serie: Current Research in the Semant
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft