This book brings together chapters on the semantics and pragmatics of measurement, scales, and numerical expressions. The chapters highlight recent developments in measurement theory, the meaning of numerical expressions and the relation between measurement scales and entailment scales. The authors provide explorations in formal and experimental semantics and pragmatics, as well as at the interfaces of this field with others including philosophy of language and sociolinguistics. This book will be of interest to students and scholars in these areas, as well as psychology, psycholinguistics and artificial intelligence.
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-restrictedmeasure 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.
Nicole Gotzner is the Director of SPA Lab at the University of Potsdam, Germany.
Uli Sauerland is the Vice Director and the leader of the Semantics and Pragmatics group at the Leibniz Centre for General Linguistics, Germany.
