NDLI: Scales and comparison classes

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Bale, Alan Clinton
Copyright Year	2011
Abstract	This paper discusses comparison classes—sets that relativize the interpretation of gradable adjectives, often specified with for-clauses as in John is smart for a linguist. Such a discussion ultimately lends support to the thesis that scales, degrees, measure functions, and linear orders are grammatically derived from more basic relations between individuals. Three accounts of comparison classes are compared and evaluated. The first proposes that such classes serve as an argument to a function that determines a standard of comparison. The second maintains that these classes restrict the domain of a measure function used to map entities to degrees. The third proposes that these classes limit the kind of individuals that participate in a binary relation; this relation is then used in the construction of a scale and a measure function. It is this third account that is most consistent with the empirical data. It can explain how comparison classes fix a standard of comparison, induce presuppositions concerning the comparative subjects, and induce incommensurability in comparative constructions.
Starting Page	169
Ending Page	190
Page Count	22
File Format	PDF
ISSN	0925854X
Journal	Natural Language Semantics
Volume Number	19
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	1572865X
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2011-03-30
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Comparison classes Scales Gradable adjectives Linear order Quasi-order Philosophy of Language Semantics Syntax
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Philosophy Linguistics and Language

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