Inherent and coerced gradability across categories: manipulating pragmatic halos with sorta  

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Anderson, Curt

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: Proceedings of the 23rd Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference, held at the University of California, Santa Cruz, May 3 - 5, 2013, page 81–96.
Topik: scales; gradability; imprecision; vagueness; modi?cation; alternative semantics; pragmatic halos
Fulltext: 3689-7310-1-PB(5).pdf (153.54KB)

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In this paper I provide an analysis of the English hedges sorta and kinda, which show a cross-categorial distribution and can induce gradability with nongradable predicates. I analyze sorta and kinda as degree words and provide a formal analysis of their behavior. With gradable predicates, these exhibit behavior similar to other degree words such as very, but with non-gradable predicates, a mismatch of logical type forces the predicate to typeshift to a gradable type, making available a degree argument that represents imprecision. The analysis is developed using Moprzycki's (2011) implementation of Lasersohnian pragmatic halos (Lasersohn 1999), and presents a case study in how gradability may be coerced from nongradable expressions.

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