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Vagueness and grammar: the semantics of relative and absolute gradable adjectives
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“While their comparative forms (“is taller than”), given the correct context, are relatively unproblematic, the positive form (“is tall”) often introduces vagueness, resulting in statements with unclear truth values (Kennedy, 2007).”
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- Authors
- Kennedy, C.
- Venue
- Linguistics and Philosophy
- Published
- 2007-03-20
- Volume
- 30
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 1-45
- ISSN
- 0165-0157 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-0549
- OpenAlex
- W2028189805
- Cited by
- 1,315
- References
- 33
- FWCI
- 271.44
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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