Overview

This book brings together chapters on the semantics and pragmatics of measurement, scales, and numerical expressions. The chapters highlight recent developments in measurement theory, the meaning of numerical expressions and the relation between measurement scales and entailment scales. The authors provide explorations in formal and experimental semantics and pragmatics, as well as at the interfaces of this field with others including philosophy of language and sociolinguistics. This book will be of interest to students and scholars in these areas, as well as psychology, psycholinguistics and artificial intelligence.

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Author:   Nicole Gotzner ,  Uli Sauerland
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2022
Weight:   0.488kg
ISBN:  

9783030733254

ISBN 10:   3030733254
Pages:   349
Publication Date:   08 February 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Partitives, Comparatives and Proportional Measurement.- Chapter 3. Modified Numerals, Vagueness, and Scale Granularity.- Chapter 4. Uncertainty, quantity and relevance inferences from modified numerals.- Chapter 5. Around “around”.- Chapter 6. Evaluative intensification and positive polarity: Catalan WELL as a case study.- Chapter 7.  She is brilliant! Distinguishing different readings of relative adjectives.- Chapter 8. Numerals denote degree quantifiers: Evidence from child language.- Chapter 9. Number, Numbers and the Mass/Count Distinction in Daakie (Ambrym, Vanuatu).- Chapter 10. Representing measurement: The view from nominal polysemy.- Chapter 11. On the status of post-nominal Q superlatives in Romanian.- Chapter 12. Unknown numbers.- Chapter 13. Some speculative remarks on the semantics of money phrases.- Chapter 14. Quantifying the register of German quantificational expressions: A corpus based study.- Chapter 15. Domain-restricted measure functions and the extent readings of relative measures.- Chapter 16. Amazing-hodo.- Chapter 17. A novel probabilistic approach to linguistic imprecision.- Chapter 18. Modification of measure nouns.

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Nicole Gotzner is the Director of SPA Lab at the University of Potsdam, Germany.   Uli Sauerland is the Vice Director and the leader of the Semantics and Pragmatics group at the Leibniz Centre for General Linguistics, Germany.  

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