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Jessica Rett

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Description:This book focuses on the semantic phenomenon of evaluativity and its consequences across constructions. Evaluativity has traditionally been associated exclusively with the positive construction, a term for sentences with a gradable adjective but with no overt degree morphology. John is tall isevaluative because it entails that John is tall relative to a contextually valued standard. John is taller than Sue and John is as tall as Sue are not evaluative because both could be used even if John and Sue were short.Previous accounts of evaluativity have assumed that it is not part of the inherent meaning of adjectives, but is contributed by a null morpheme. Jessica Rett argues against this analysis, proposing that no null morpheme is required. Instead, evaluativity is explained on the basis of assumptions thatspeakers and hearers make about the relationship between the simplicity of a situation and the simplicity of the language used to describe that situationWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Semantics of Evaluativity (Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics). To get started finding The Semantics of Evaluativity (Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: This book focuses on the semantic phenomenon of evaluativity and its consequences across constructions. Evaluativity has traditionally been associated exclusively with the positive construction, a term for sentences with a gradable adjective but with no overt degree morphology. John is tall isevaluative because it entails that John is tall relative to a contextually valued standard. John is taller than Sue and John is as tall as Sue are not evaluative because both could be used even if John and Sue were short.Previous accounts of evaluativity have assumed that it is not part of the inherent meaning of adjectives, but is contributed by a null morpheme. Jessica Rett argues against this analysis, proposing that no null morpheme is required. Instead, evaluativity is explained on the basis of assumptions thatspeakers and hearers make about the relationship between the simplicity of a situation and the simplicity of the language used to describe that situationWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Semantics of Evaluativity (Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics). To get started finding The Semantics of Evaluativity (Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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