Total adjectives vs. partial adjectives: Scale structure and higher-order modifiers

Natural Language Semantics

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 259-288

  Rotstein, Carmen ^a   Winter, Yoad ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

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EID: 17644419914     PISSN: 0925854X     EISSN: 1572865X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:NALS.0000034517.56898.9a     Document Type: Article

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