Gradation in modified AdjPs  

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Castroviejo-Miró, Elena

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: Proceedings of the 22nd Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference, held at University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, May 18-20, 2012, page 83-103.
Topik: modification; gradability; adverbs; adjectives; wh-interrogatives; wh-exclamatives; so; how; extremely
Fulltext: 83-103.pdf (242.4KB)

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The goal of this paper is to gain a better understanding of the composition processes underlying DegPs headed by how that include an adjective that is in turn modified. These include how extremely high, how politically incorrect and how damn important. The focus here is on adverbs such as extremely, which have been used in the literature on exclamatives as a test of exclamativity, but which have not been given to this date a compositional semantics. I argue that, even if this has been challenged in the literature for Remarkably adverbs such as surprisingly, extremely is a degree predicate, where degrees are not construed as positive numbers on a scale, but rather as equivalence classes of individuals (Cresswell 1976). This research has interesting ramifications for the analysis of degree expressions (how and so vs. very and enough) and for the distinction between interrogative and exclamative clauses.

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