Quantifiers in comparatives: A semantics of degree based on intervals

Natural Language Semantics

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-41

  Schwarzschild, Roger ^a   Wilkinson, Karina ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 12444274323     PISSN: 0925854X     EISSN: 1572865X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1015545424775     Document Type: Article

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