This book explores graded expressions of modality, a rich and underexplored source of
insight into modal semantics. Studies on modal language to date have largely focussed on a …

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 …

This chapter surveys the contemporary debate in philosophy of language and linguistics
about value judgments. Under this label we find different kinds of judgments such as 'Torture …

Critics across the political spectrum have worried that ordinary uses of words like
'racist','sexist', and 'homophobic'are becoming conceptually inflated, meaning that these …

The adjective 'is justified'has all the hallmarks of a gradable adjective. But the relationship
between gradable uses and straightforward predications of the form 'x is justified'has been …

Degree semantics has been developed to study how the meanings of measurement and
comparison are encoded in natural language. Within degree semantics, this paper proposes …

This book is about what is nowadays regarded as one of the most venerable and difficult
philosophical paradoxes (Priest 2003, p. 9): the Sorites Paradox (in better English,'Heaper …

We present a compositionally transparent, unified semantic analysis of two kinds of so… wie-
equative constructions in German, namely degree equatives and property equatives in the …

Hyperintensionality and Normativity Page 1 Federico LGFaroldi Hyperintensionality and
Normativity Page 2 Hyperintensionality and Normativity Page 3 Federico LG Faroldi …

Vagueness is a double-edged sword in relation to lying and truthfulness. In situations in
which a cooperative speaker is uncertain about the world, vagueness offers a resource for …