Eintrag

Titel

A cognitivist semantics of gradation

Personen

Kai-Uwe Carstensen

Jahr

2013

Typ

Aufsatz

Periodikum

Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft

Seiten

181 - 219

Band

32

Heft

2

Schlagwörter

Adjektiv
Graduierung
Semantik

Abstract

Scalar approaches to the semantics of gradation are generally based on the conception of degrees as either points or intervals. In this paper, I will review two prominent approaches which use intervals differently for modelling the polarity of adjectives. For a relevant subset of gradation phenomena, I will discuss several problems of these approaches and will develop a new proposal which is characterized by the assumption that for an attention-based, cognitivist semantics of gradation, both conceptions of degree are needed for a satisfactory solution of the problems.

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