In this article we develop a semantic typology of gradable predicates, with special emphasis
on deverbal adjectives. We argue for the linguistic relevance of this typology by …

This paper investigates the way that linguistic expressions influence vagueness, focusing on
the interpretation of the positive (unmarked) form of gradable adjectives. I begin by …

Volume III: Taling form.«This book is volume III of a trilogy which explores the difference
between words however defined and structures however constructed. The trilogy sets out to …

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Author(s): Angelika Kratzer Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley …

Many people have studied how vague predicates depend on context for their interpretation,
but few have studied in detail how a use of a vague predicate affects the context against …

This paper uses the distribution and interpretation of antonymous adjectives in comparative
constructions as an empirical basis to argue that abstract representations of measurement …

This paper studies a distinction that was proposed in previous works between total and
partial adjectives. In pairs of adjectives such as safe–dangerous, clean–dirty and healthy …

The liuk betweeu telicity and accusative case has inspired much syntactic work and is also
well documented in the semantic literature. Gillian Ramchand made the case for Scottish …

English resultatives are secondary predicates indicating the result of the action described by
the primary predicate. The predicate flat in sentence (1) is a resultative because the …

Diese Untersuchung handelt von sein–dem, laut Grimm'schem Worterbuch," allgemeinsten
und farblosesten aller verbalbegriffe". Sie geht der Frage nach, ob die Kopula sein im …