In this review, we discuss the empirical landscape of degree constructions cross-
linguistically as well as the major analytical avenues that have been pursued to account for …

This dissertation contributes to the growing tradition of work in which detailed exploration of
understudied languages informs formal semantic and syntactic theory and probes the …

The standard degree analysis of gradability in English holds that the function of degree
morphology, such as the comparative, measure phrases, and degree adverbs, is to bind a …

Determining the semantic content of sentences, and uncovering regularities between
linguistic form and meaning, requires attending to both morphological and syntactic …

Recent studies of Japanese clausal comparatives have yielded several competing
theoretical views of their syntax and semantics that have different implications for the issue …

This dissertation develops a semantic analysis for frame-setting constructions, which
operate at the interface between context and composition: Frame setters introduce a …

This paper argues (a) that the bı̌ comparative construction in Mandarin Chinese is a form of
clausal comparative and (b) that Mandarin Chinese lacks abstraction over degree variables …

This paper investigates the various comparative operators that a language might employ
and provides arguments for choosing a particular one. In particular, different phrasal …

Abstract Mandarin Chinese, along with Japanese, Yorùbá, Mòoré, and Samoan, has been
argued to lack 'degree abstraction', a configuration at LF involving lambda abstraction over a …

This paper shows that a measure phrase and pos are not necessarily incompatible, contrary
to the conclusion reached from the study of English. I propose that a measure phrase …