Total Adjectives vs. Partial Adjectives: Scale Structure and Higher-Order Modifiers

By C. Rotstein, Yoad Winter. 2004

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Computational Theory and Mathematics, Language and Linguistics

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The positive morpheme in Chinese and the adjectival structure (2010, background): “Third, as discussed by Rotstein and Winter (2004), Kennedy and McNally (2005), and Kennedy (2007b), not all gradable adjectives have context dependent standards in the positive form; for instance, adjectives like wet, open, bent, and impure are special in having positive forms in which the standard…”
Vagueness and grammar: the semantics of relative and absolute gradable adjectives (2007, background): “Another way to put this is that the positive form cannot be used to distinguish between objects that are very similar relative to some gradable property, an idea that underlies several important accounts of the Sorites Paradox (in particular, Graff, 2000; Kamp, 1981; Soames, 1999; Tappenden, 1993), ”
Scalar vs. Epistemic Vagueness: Evidence from Approximators (2007, background): “This claim can be examined will using adjectives in English for the following reason: Rotstein and Winter (2004) and Kennedy and McNally (2005) argue that the scales associated with adjectives can be either open or closed, and that this affects the denotation of adjectives.”
Gradable epistemic modals, probability, and scale structure (2010, background): “Rotstein & Winter (2004) show that almost can only be used with maximum-standard adjectives, and, when acceptable, x is almost A entails that the antonym of A with slightly holds of x: (13) The neighborhood is almost safe. à The neighborhood is slightly dangerous.”
Scale Structure, Degree Modification, and the Semantics of Gradable Predicates (2005, background): “The first is the structure of the scale that a gradable property uses as a basis for ordering the objects in its domain (cf. Rotstein and Winter 2004), in particular, whether the scale is fully closed (has a minimum and maximum value), partly closed (has only a minimum or maximum value, but not…”