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The Meaning of More (Oxford Studies in Semantics and Pragmatics) by Alexis Wellwood. is a computer science book available to read on EtoBox.
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This book reimagines the compositional semantics of comparative sentences using words such as more, as, too, and others. The book's central thesis entails a rejection of a fundamental assumption of degree semantic frameworks: that gradable adjectives like tall lexicalize functions from individuals to degrees, i.e., measure functions. <p>Alexis Wellwood argues that comparative expressions in English themselves introduceÂmeasure functions; this is the case whether that morphology targets adjective
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- Author
- Alexis Wellwood.
- Publisher
- IRL Press at Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780198804659
- Category
- computer science
- Subjects
- Linguistics, Language Learning, Literary Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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