Adjectives, stereotypicality, and comparison

Natural Language Semantics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 35-63

  McCready, Eric ^a   Ogata, Norry ^b  

^a AOYAMA GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adjectives; Comparatives; Japanese; Normality; Prototypes; Scales

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547143399     PISSN: 0925854X     EISSN: 1572865X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11050-007-9009-8     Document Type: Article

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