Gradability in natural language: logical and grammatical foundations
Auteur :
Burnett, Heather
Éditeur :
Oxford University Press
ISBN :
9780198724803
Date de publication :
8 déc. 2016
Dimensions :
24,6 x 17,3 x 1,3 cm
Poids :
414 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
This book presents a new theory of the relationship between vagueness, context-sensitivity, gradability, and scale structure in natural language. Heather Burnett proposes a new formal reasoning system called DelTCS in which she sets out a completely new theory of gradable linguistic constructions.