The Semantics of Degree

By Irene Heim, C. Kennedy. 2002

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Measure Phrases as Modifiers of Adjectives (2005, background): “This idea is found, for example, in Cresswell (1976), von Stechow (1984), Heim (2001), Matushansky (2002 : section 1.1.1), Meier (2003 : section 2.3).”
Meaning and compositionality as statistical induction of categories and constraints (2009, background): “As noted previously, some have proposed that gradable adjectives serve as functions that map objects onto an abstract representation of degrees or an ordering along a scale, without specifying the details of how this function operates in a given context (e.g., Kennedy, 1999; Cresswell, 1976).”
Shifting sands: An interest relative theory of vagueness (2000, background): “Montague (1970) and Cresswell (1976), in contrast, take the prenominal occurrence of adjectives to be primary, and propose that adjectives are essentially noun modifiers: for Montague, the semantic function of an adjective is to combine with a noun to form a predicate; for Cresswell, adjectives comb”
Mandarin transitive comparatives and the grammar of measurement (2012, background): “…constructions—is that they denote relations between individuals and degrees, where degrees are values that provide a basis for ordering objects relative to some dimension (see Cresswell 1977; von Stechow 1984a; Bierwisch 1989; Kennedy 2001; Schwarzschild and Wilkinson 2002; Heim 2006; Bale 2009).”
The grammar of standards: Judge-dependence, purpose-relativity, and comparison classes in degree constructions (2014, background): “It is common wisdom that CC for-phrases only combine with gradable adjectives which make use of contextually defined, vague standards of comparison in the positive form – and therefore are taken to play a role of ‘reducing’ (though not eliminating) this vagueness (Bartsch and Vennemann, 1973; Cressw”
Mood and gradability: an investigation of the subjunctive mood in Spanish (2008, methodology): “5 For approaches that adopt a scalar semantics for gradable adjectives see Bartsch and Venneman (1973), Bierwisch (1989), Cresswell (1976), Kamp (1975), Kennedy (1999), Klein (1980, 1991), Rullmann (1995), Seuren (1973), von Stechow (1984a,b), and many others.”
A "de-Fregean" semantics (and neo-Gricean pragmatics) for modified and unmodified numerals (2015, background): “…I assume that numerals saturate a degree position in the nominal projection, which could be introduced by Hackl’s manyw (we no longer need manys, as we will shortly see), by a silent/deleted adjectival version of many (cf. Landman 2003, 2004), or by the noun itself (Cresswell 1976, Krifka 1989).”
Vagueness and grammar: the semantics of relative and absolute gradable adjectives (2007, background): “…like those in (7) and (8) (in appropriate contexts), many analyses assume that the comparison class is always a constituent of the semantic representation of the positive form (Bartsch & Vennemann, 1972; Cresswell, 1977; Kennedy, 1999; Kennedy & McNally, 2005; Wheeler, 1972; von Stechow, 1984).”
Quantifiers in Than-Clauses (2010, background): “…theoretical framework like Heim & Kratzer 1998 and begins with specifically Heim’s (2001) version of the theory of comparison promoted in von Stechow 1984 (see also Klein 1991 and Beck 2009 for an exposition and Cresswell 1977; Hellan 1981; Hoeksema 1983; Seuren 1978 for theoretical predecessors).”
How Tall Is Tall? Compositionality, Statistics, and Gradable Adjectives (2009, background): “Considerable attention has been paid to the formal semantics of gradable adjectives (Cresswell, 1976; Kennedy, 1999; Klein, 1991), but these accounts do not specify how speakers identify things in the world as tall, short, big, or small.”
Is the Red Square Big? MALeViC: Modeling Adjectives Leveraging Visual Contexts (2019, background): “Second, besides depending on a contextually-given reference set, GAs rely on orderings, i.e, they denote functions that map entities onto scales of degrees (Cresswell, 1976; Kennedy, 1999).”