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By Marcin Morzycki

ISBN-10: 1107009758

ISBN-13: 9781107009752

Modifiers and amendment were an incredible concentration of inquiry for so long as the formal research of semantics has existed, and stay on the center of significant theoretical debates within the box. amendment deals finished insurance of a variety of issues, together with vagueness and gradability, comparatives and measure structures, the lexical semantics of adjectives and adverbs, crosscategorial regularities, and the relation among that means and syntactic classification. Morzycki publications the reader in the course of the diversified and occasionally mysterious phenomena surrounding amendment and the guidelines which have been proposed to account for them. providing disparate techniques in a constant analytical framework, this accessibly written paintings, such as an in depth thesaurus of technical phrases, is vital studying for researchers and scholars of all degrees in linguistics, the philosophy of language and psycholinguistics.

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