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(Michigan State University)
  • Formaat: Hardback, 346 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 224x147x23 mm, kaal: 570 g
  • Sari: Key Topics in Semantics and Pragmatics
  • Ilmumisaeg: 12-Nov-2015
  • Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN-10: 1107009758
  • ISBN-13: 9781107009752
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  • Formaat: Hardback, 346 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 224x147x23 mm, kaal: 570 g
  • Sari: Key Topics in Semantics and Pragmatics
  • Ilmumisaeg: 12-Nov-2015
  • Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN-10: 1107009758
  • ISBN-13: 9781107009752
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Modification offers a thorough and accessible exploration of what adjectives and adverbs mean, how they interact with what they modify, and how language expresses the inherent gradience of the world. An invaluable addition to the field for students and researchers in linguistics, the philosophy of language and psycholinguistics.

Modifiers and modification have been a major focus of inquiry for as long as the formal study of semantics has existed, and remain at the heart of major theoretical debates in the field. Modification offers comprehensive coverage of a wide range of topics, including vagueness and gradability, comparatives and degree constructions, the lexical semantics of adjectives and adverbs, crosscategorial regularities, and the relation between meaning and syntactic category. Morzycki guides the reader through the varied and sometimes mysterious phenomena surrounding modification and the ideas that have been proposed to account for them. Presenting disparate approaches in a consistent analytical framework, this accessibly written work, which includes an extensive glossary of technical terms, is essential reading for researchers and students of all levels in linguistics, the philosophy of language and psycholinguistics.

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'Morzycki's discussion of modification is a beautifully written microcosm of the semantic enterprise as a whole. It leaves the reader with the sense that this is an exciting and burgeoning field on the brink of new discoveries.' Alan Bale, Concordia University, Montréal

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An accessible guide to the linguistic semantics of adjectives, adverbs, gradability, vagueness, comparatives, and modification more generally.
Acknowledgments x
1 Preliminaries
1(12)
1.1 Two problems
1(1)
1.2 What this book is and isn't
2(1)
1.3 Background assumptions
3(5)
1.3.1 Glossing logical notation
3(1)
1.3.2 Theoretical framework
4(3)
1.3.3 Notational and typographical conventions
7(1)
1.4 What, if anything, is modification?
8(4)
1.5 Roadmap
12(1)
2 The lexical semantics of adjectives: more than just scales
13(75)
2.1 Introduction
13(1)
2.2 How adjectives and nouns combine: a typology
14(12)
2.2.1 Intersective interpretations
14(2)
2.2.2 Subsective interpretations
16(4)
2.2.3 Apparently subsective intersective interpretations
20(2)
2.2.4 Ordinary non-subsective adjectives
22(2)
2.2.5 Privative adjectives, which may not exist
24(2)
2.3 The type of adjectives and the nature of subsectivity
26(18)
2.3.1 How powerful are adjectives?
26(4)
2.3.2 Siegel: the Doublet Theory
30(4)
2.3.3 Larson: events inside the nominal extended projection
34(7)
2.3.4 The implicit-argument approach
41(1)
2.3.5 How much power is too much? Impossible adjectives
42(2)
2.4 The menagerie of adjectives
44(15)
2.4.1 A word about adjective classification
44(1)
2.4.2 Temporal-ordering adjectives
45(3)
2.4.3 Classificatory/relational adjectives
48(5)
2.4.4 The trouble with stone lions
53(2)
2.4.5 The attributive-with-infinitive construction
55(2)
2.4.6 Adnominal degree modifiers
57(2)
2.5 Adjectives where they have no right to be: adverbial readings
59(20)
2.5.1 A scope puzzle
59(1)
2.5.2 Frequency adjectives: the facts
60(3)
2.5.3 The adverbial reading of frequency adjectives
63(4)
2.5.4 The internal reading of frequency adjectives
67(1)
2.5.5 Average Americans and parasitic scope
68(6)
2.5.6 Sameness and difference
74(3)
2.5.7 Other adverbial readings and the bigger picture
77(2)
2.6 Adjective position and syntactic issues
79(6)
2.6.1 Attributive vs. predicative, prenominal vs. postnominal
79(2)
2.6.2 Indirect modification
81(1)
2.6.3 Stage-level/individual-level contrasts
82(2)
2.6.4 A focus position?
84(1)
2.7 What is it to be an adjective?
85(1)
2.8 Questions for further reflection and discussion
86(1)
2.9 Suggestions for further reading
87(1)
3 Vagueness, degrees, and gradable predicates
88(61)
3.1 Introduction
88(1)
3.2 Vagueness
89(8)
3.2.1 Identifying vagueness
89(2)
3.2.2 Vagueness vs. ambiguity
91(2)
3.2.3 Vagueness vs. imprecision
93(3)
3.2.4 Some foundational questions
96(1)
3.3 Theories of vagueness and gradability: a false start
97(3)
3.3.1 Three approaches
97(1)
3.3.2 Fuzzy logic
98(2)
3.4 The inherent vagueness approach
100(9)
3.4.1 Extension gaps
100(2)
3.4.2 Precisification and supertruth
102(2)
3.4.3 Comparatives
104(3)
3.4.4 Degree words
107(1)
3.4.5 Degree functions and comparatives revisited
108(1)
3.5 The degree-based approach
109(12)
3.5.1 Degrees
109(3)
3.5.2 Gradable predicates
112(3)
3.5.3 Borderline cases and context-dependence
115(2)
3.5.4 The tautology and contradiction issue
117(1)
3.5.5 Comparatives
118(1)
3.5.6 Degree words
119(1)
3.5.7 Varieties of degrees
119(2)
3.6 Degree or not degree? That is the question
121(3)
3.7 Scales and the lexical semantics of adjectives
124(23)
3.7.1 Antonyms
124(7)
3.7.2 Open and closed scales
131(7)
3.7.3 Dimensional and non-dimensional adjectives
138(2)
3.7.4 Extreme adjectives
140(4)
3.7.5 Gradable modal adjectives
144(1)
3.7.6 On scales and categories
145(2)
3.8 Questions for further reflection and discussion
147(1)
3.9 Suggestions for further reading
148(1)
4 Comparatives and their kin
149(44)
4.1 Introduction
149(1)
4.2 The syntax and semantics of the extended AP
150(21)
4.2.1 Getting terminology out of the way
150(1)
4.2.2 The unpronounced in comparative clauses
150(2)
4.2.3 First steps
152(5)
4.2.4 The big DegP view
157(2)
4.2.5 The small DegP view
159(4)
4.2.6 Scope and degree operators
163(5)
4.2.7 The Russell ambiguity
168(1)
4.2.8 Quantification and comparative clauses
169(2)
4.3 Other degree constructions
171(12)
4.3.1 Differential comparatives and measure phrases
171(2)
4.3.2 Equatives
173(1)
4.3.3 Superlatives
174(2)
4.3.4 Sufficiency and excess
176(1)
4.3.5 Degree exclamatives and degree questions
177(1)
4.3.6 Metalinguistic comparatives
178(2)
4.3.7 Comparison of deviation
180(1)
4.3.8 Indirect comparison
181(2)
4.4 Neutralization and positive-entailingness
183(3)
4.5 The crosslinguistic picture
186(207)
4.5.1 Measure phrases
186(1)
4.5.2 Comparison strategies
187(1)
4.5.3 How much degree is there in your degree constructions?
188(205)
4.6 Questions for further reflection and discussion
393
4.7 Suggestions for further reading
191(2)
5 Adverbs
193(57)
5.1 Introduction
193(1)
5.2 Classifying adverbials
194(3)
5.3 The compositional puzzle
197(11)
5.3.1 Modifiers of propositions?
197(2)
5.3.2 Subject-oriented adverbs and the predicate-modifier approach
199(2)
5.3.3 Problems for the intersective approach
201(3)
5.3.4 Davidsonian events: the intersective approach redeemed
204(4)
5.4 Manner and subject orientation
208(20)
5.4.1 Augmentation and passive-sensitivity
208(4)
5.4.2 The Neo-Davidsonian strategy and thematic roles
212(3)
5.4.3 Comparison classes and related tools
215(6)
5.4.4 The bottom-up analytical strategy
221(2)
5.4.5 Topic-orientation
223(3)
5.4.6 Is there such a thing as a manner?
226(2)
5.5 Speaker-oriented adverbials
228(9)
5.5.1 Speech-act adverbials
228(5)
5.5.2 Evaluative adverbs
233(2)
5.5.3 Modal adverbs
235(1)
5.5.4 Polarity
236(1)
5.6 Locative adverbials
237(3)
5.6.1 Types and positions of locative adverbials
237(1)
5.6.2 Vector Space Semantics
238(2)
5.7 Adverbs as modifiers of adjectives
240(3)
5.8 Phenomena we will mostly set aside
243(3)
5.8.1 Temporal adverbials
243(2)
5.8.2 Adverbs of quantification
245(1)
5.9 Adverb order revisited
246(2)
5.10 Questions for further reflection and discussion
248(1)
5.11 Suggestions for further reading
249(1)
6 Crosscategorial concerns
250(26)
6.1 Introduction
250(1)
6.2 Amounts and cardinality scales
251(6)
6.2.1 Quantity adjectives and number words
251(4)
6.2.2 Amount comparatives
255(2)
6.3 Gradability and non-adjectival predicates
257(5)
6.3.1 Verbal gradability
257(3)
6.3.2 Nominal gradability
260(2)
6.4 Hedging and reinforcing across categories
262(5)
6.5 Nonrestrictive modifiers
267(4)
6.6 Predicates of personal taste
271(2)
6.7 Questions for further reflection and discussion
273(1)
6.8 Suggestions for further reading
274(2)
7 Taking stock
276(8)
7.1 Back to the beginning
276(3)
7.2 Where to from here?
279(5)
Glossary 284(14)
References 298(32)
Index 330
Marcin Morzycki is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Michigan State University.