Degree modification of gradable nouns: Size adjectives and adnominal degree morphemes

Natural Language Semantics

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 175-203

  Morzycki, Marcin ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjectives; Degree modification; Gradability; Nominals; Scale structure; Vagueness

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349221832     PISSN: 0925854X     EISSN: 1572865X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11050-009-9045-7     Document Type: Article

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