Shifting sands: An interest relative theory of vagueness

By Delia Graff Fara. 2000

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Subfields: Anthropology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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Bringing Machine Learning and Compositional Semantics Together (2015, background): “…language, not the exception, and it is arguably crucial for the flexible, expressive nature of such languages, allowing fixed expressions to make different distinctions in different contexts and helping people to communicate under uncertainty about the world (Kamp & Partee 1995; Graff 2000).”
The positive morpheme in Chinese and the adjectival structure (2010, background): “As Graff (2000) and Kennedy (2005, 2007b) point out, in addition to the contextually dependent interpretations, the positive form of gradable adjectives shows another semantic characteristic: it establishes an ordering between objects x and y with respect to gradable property g denoted by the…”
Vagueness and grammar: the semantics of relative and absolute gradable adjectives (2007, background): “This would derive the constraints listed above, and would provide a way of circumventing the criticisms I articulate below, but would also be subject to the various arguments that have been leveled against supervaluation-based analyses of vagueness (see e.g. Williamson 1992, 1994; Graff 2000).”
Context, interest relativity and the sorites (2003, background): “Delia Graff (2000) provides an account of the sorites paradox that shares many of the virtues of the contextualist account just canvassed, but which promises to evade these kinds of problems.”
The grammar of standards: Judge-dependence, purpose-relativity, and comparison classes in degree constructions (2014, background): “In the calculation of the standard degree from the fixed comparison class (Fara, 2000; Richard, 2004);”