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 …

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 …

Nez Perce is a language with a dedicated comparative morpheme and crisp judgments in its
comparatives, but with no means to express differential measurement in its comparative …

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 …

The paper presents the result of a diachronic corpus study on Samoan, tracing a recent
change in the setting of the Degree Semantics Parameter (Beck et al. 2009). We suggest …

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

Beck et al. and much follow-up research (including Bochnak; Bowler; Deal and Hohaus)
argue that languages systematically differ in the semantics of gradable predicates like tall …

In and across languages, there are often multiple compositional roads to the same meaning.
We can thus arrive at identical truth conditions in very different fashions. This paper …

The paper discusses the internal and external syntax of comparison constructions in the light
of diachronic as well as dialectal German data. As far as the syntactic position of comparison …

We present a set of experiments investigating how English-and Japanese-speaking children
interpret Measure Phrase comparatives (eg, X is 10 meters taller than Y/X-wa Y-yori 10 …