24.979 Topics in Semantics, Fall 2002
Author(s)
Kennedy, Christopher
Heim, Irene
Alternative Title
Topics in Semantics
Date Issued
December 2002
Abstract
This seminar will investigate the expression of gradability, comparison and degree in natural language. The course will address the following major issues, though we may also include other topics according to the interests and direction of the class: The underlying semantic representation of expressions of degree and the linguistic significance of scalar representations The logical form of comparative constructions, and the implications of comparatives for other aspects of the grammar The semantics of degree and the role of scalar representations in grammatical categories other than gradable adjectives
Subjects
semantics of grading and degree
Vague predicates
Degrees relations
Scale structure
degree modification
Relative gradable adjectives
absolute gradable adjectives
standard of comparison
Scope ambiguities
superlatives
polar opposition
negative polarity
Comparative quantifiers
Partitives
Telicity
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
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