Color adjectives and radical contextualism

Linguistics and Philosophy

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 201-221

  Hansen, Nathaniel ^a  

^a INSTITUT JEAN NICOD   (France)

Author keywords

Adjectives; Ambiguity; Color; Context; Contextualism; Gradability; Predicates of personal taste

Indexed keywords

EID: 83455213252     PISSN: 01650157     EISSN: 15730549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10988-011-9099-0     Document Type: Article

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