Tipping the Scales: The Syntax of Scalarity in the Complement of SEEM

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Measure Phrases as Modifiers of Adjectives (2005, background): “By contrast, there are cognate objects in Hebrew, Russian, Èdó, and Vietnamese that are not arguments.”
The grammar of standards: Judge-dependence, purpose-relativity, and comparison classes in degree constructions (2014, background): “Seem requires a scalar complement (Matushansky, 2002b), while consider is subjective – thus both involve a cross-world range of possible values of the DP description in the predicative position of their small clause.”
Gradability in the nominal domain (2011, methodology): “has been taken either to coerce the meaning of the noun itself into a gradable meaning that can be degree-modified (Matushansky 2002b) or to be interpreted with”