Measurement theory in linguistics

Synthese

Volumn 174, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 151-180

  Sassoon, Galit Weidman ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Degree; Gradable adjective; Measure phrase; Measurement theory; Unit

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950370987     PISSN: 00397857     EISSN: 15730964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-009-9687-5     Document Type: Article

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