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TZNAME:America/New_York EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:16e7a34bff5ac50fc811b961730021f3 CATEGORIES:RuCCS Colloquia:Spring 2004 CREATED:20151203T141540 SUMMARY:Cancelled until further notice. LOCATION:Department of Linguistics\, Northwestern University DESCRIPTION:
January 27, 2004 at 1:00 pm
Psychology Room 101, Busch Campus
Department of Linguistics, Northwestern University
This talk discusses the grammatical principles govern
ing the interpretation of a particular class of vague expressions:� terms that describe gradable properties, su
ch as �tall�, �expensive�, �full�, and �wet�.� The standard analysis of such expressions is that their meanings
involve reference to a contextually determined �standard of comparison�.� On this view, �X is tall�, for examp
le, means something like �X�s height is greater than a standard of height f
or things like �X�.� In fact, howeve
r, the range of interpretations that gradable predicates may have is actual
ly much broader than has standardly been assumed, and in the first part of
this talk I provide a description of, and evidence for, this variability.� In the second part of the talk, I de
velop an analysis that derives the observed range of interpretations in ter
ms of the interaction of the scalar properties of gradable predicates and g
eneral constraints on semantic (or possibly pragmatic) economy and strength
.