Polar Opposition and the Ontology of ‘Degrees’

By Christopher Kennedy. 2001

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Language and Linguistics

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Vagueness and grammar: the semantics of relative and absolute gradable adjectives (2007, background): “For example, an object in some domain can stand out relative to the kind of measurement encoded by tall (‘increasing height’; see Kennedy, 2001) either by having a significant or noteworthy amount of height, or by simply having a height that very few other things in the domain have, i.e. by being…”
The universal density of measurement (2007, background): “The suggestion that implicatures are due to exh was advanced in Groenendijk and Stokhof (1984), Krifka (1995), and van Rooy and Schulz (2004). It has been defended in Fox (2004) based on evidence that the OIG (in (6)) is a better predictor of the distribution of scalar implicatures than the traditio”
Total Adjectives vs. Partial Adjectives: Scale Structure and Higher-Order Modifiers (2004, background): “20As mentioned by Kennedy and McNally (2002), completely has two meanings.”
Mood and gradability: an investigation of the subjunctive mood in Spanish (2008, background): “2000), Kennedy (1999, 2001) , Kennedy and McNally (2005), Klein (1991), von Stechow (1984a, b). See Kennedy (1999) for an overview of scalar analyses of gradable adjectives.”
The Role of Dimensions in the Syntax of Noun Phrases (2006, background): “For this reason they are often called dimensional adjectives (Bierwisch & Lang 1987; Hamann 1991; Kennedy 1999, 2001 and references therein).”
Scale Structure, Degree Modification, and the Semantics of Gradable Predicates (2005, background): “This follows if different dimensions entail different scales, and if comparative morphemes presuppose that the degrees they order come from the same scale (Kennedy 2001).”
Reflections on Manner/Result Complementarity* (2010, background): “Verbs denoting events of scalar change lexically specify a scale, where a scale is a set of degrees—points or intervals indicating measurement values—on a particular dimension (e.g., height, temperature, cost), with an associated ordering relation ( Kennedy 2001, Kennedy and McNally 2005).”
Measure Phrases as Modifiers of Adjectives (2005, background): “Cresswell (1976), von Stechow (1984) and Kennedy (2001) distinguish tall-degrees from short-degrees and they say that 5 meters denotes a tall-degree.”
Semantic variation and the grammar of property concepts (2015, unknown): “…variation between 25For any two points a and b on a scale such that a ≤ b an interval is the set of points x satisfying a ≤ x ≤ b. 26In fact, it has been argued that intervals should replace degrees in the analysis of comparatives, e.g. by Kennedy (2001) and Schwarzschild and Wilkinson (2002).”
Degree modification of gradable nouns: size adjectives and adnominal degree morphemes (2009, background): “The account of that too emerges from what has already been said, and from the relatively standard assumption that antonymous adjectives measure along scales with opposite orderings (Faller 2000; Kennedy 2001; Rullmann 1995, among others).”