caa a22 4500 606154205 CHVBK 20210128100557.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10988-015-9165-0 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10988-015-9165-0 Wellwood Alexis Department of Linguistics, Northwestern University, 2016 Sheridan Road, 60208, Evanston, IL, USA aut On the semantics of comparison across categories [Elektronische Daten] [Alexis Wellwood] This paper explores the hypothesis that all comparative sentences— nominal, verbal, and adjectival—contain instances of a single morpheme that compositionally introduces degrees. This morpheme, sometimes pronounced much, semantically contributes a structure-preserving map from entities, events, or states, to their measures along various dimensions. A major goal of the paper is to argue that the differences in dimensionality observed across domains are a consequence of what is measured, as opposed to which expression introduces the measurement. The resulting theory has a number of interesting properties. It characterizes the notion of ‘measurement' uniformly across comparative constructions, in terms of non-trivial structure preservation. It unifies the distinctions between mass/count nouns and atelic/telic verb phrases with that between gradable and non-gradable adjectives. Finally, it affords a uniform characterization of semantically anomalous comparisons across categories. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2015 Comparatives nationallicence Degree constructions nationallicence Measurement nationallicence Mass-count distinction nationallicence Telicity nationallicence Gradable adjectives nationallicence Plurality nationallicence Semantics nationallicence Logical form nationallicence Linguistics and Philosophy Springer Netherlands 38/1(2015-02-01), 67-101 0165-0157 38:1<67 2015 38 10988 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10988-015-9165-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10988-015-9165-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Wellwood Alexis Department of Linguistics, Northwestern University, 2016 Sheridan Road, 60208, Evanston, IL, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Linguistics and Philosophy Springer Netherlands 38/1(2015-02-01), 67-101 0165-0157 38:1<67 2015 38 10988