caa a22 4500 463173724 CHVBK 20180406164820.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11050-007-9009-8 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11050-007-9009-8 Adjectives, stereotypicality, and comparison [Elektronische Daten] [Eric McCready, Norry Ogata] Japanese has a large number of evidential and modal expressions. Many of the inferential evidentials - mitai, yoo, rashii - also have an adjectival use. On this use, they make a claim about the prototypicality of some object or individual with respect to another class of object, in the case of rashii, or about the similarity of these two objects, for yoo and mitai. This paper provides a compositional semantics for these adjectives, claiming that they are evaluated in terms of the degree to which they instantiate a set of properties (conventionally) associated with a class of object. Springer Science+Business Media, 2007 Japanese nationallicence Adjectives nationallicence Prototypes nationallicence Scales nationallicence Normality nationallicence Comparatives nationallicence McCready Eric Department of English, Aoyama Gakuin University, 4-4-25 Shibuya, Shibuya-Ku, 150-8366, Tokyo, Japan aut Ogata Norry Department of Language and Information Science, Osaka University, 41-1 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka-shi, 560-0043, Osaka-fu, Japan aut Natural Language Semantics Kluwer Academic Publishers 15/1(2007-03-01), 35-63 0925-854X 15:1<35 2007 15 11050 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11050-007-9009-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11050-007-9009-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- McCready Eric Department of English, Aoyama Gakuin University, 4-4-25 Shibuya, Shibuya-Ku, 150-8366, Tokyo, Japan aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ogata Norry Department of Language and Information Science, Osaka University, 41-1 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka-shi, 560-0043, Osaka-fu, Japan aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Natural Language Semantics Kluwer Academic Publishers 15/1(2007-03-01), 35-63 0925-854X 15:1<35 2007 15 11050 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer