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Measurements, Numerals and Scales

Essays in Honour of Stephanie Solt

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Editors:
  1. Nicole Gotzner

    1. Cognitive Science/Linguistics Department, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

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  2. Uli Sauerland

    1. ZAS, Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics, Berlin, Germany

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  • Focusses on various aspects of measurement in linguistics
  • Brings together 18 chapters from renowned experts in experimental semantics and pragmatics
  • Highlights the most recent developments in the field, as well as its interdisciplinary boundaries

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Introduction

    • Nicole Gotzner, Uli Sauerland
    Pages 1-10

  3. Partitives, Comparatives and Proportional Measurement

    • Alan Bale
    Pages 11-34

  4. Modified Numerals, Vagueness, and Scale Granularity

    • Anton Benz, Christoph Hesse
    Pages 35-57

  5. Uncertainty, Quantity and Relevance Inferences from Modified Numerals

    • Chris Cummins
    Pages 59-74

  6. Around “Around”

    • Paul Égré
    Pages 75-86

  7. Evaluative Intensification and Positive Polarity: Catalan WELL as a Case Study

    • Elena Castroviejo, Berit Gehrke
    Pages 87-116

  8. She is Brilliant! Distinguishing Different Readings of Relative Adjectives

    • Nicole Gotzner, Sybille Kiziltan
    Pages 117-134

  9. Numerals Denote Degree Quantifiers: Evidence from Child Language

    • Christopher Kennedy, Kristen Syrett
    Pages 135-162

  10. Number, Numbers and the Mass/Count Distinction in Daakie (Ambrym, Vanuatu)

    • Manfred Krifka
    Pages 163-186

  11. Representing Measurement: The View from Nominal Polysemy

    • Louise McNally
    Pages 187-210

  12. On the Status of Post-nominal Q Superlatives in Romanian

    • Andreea C. Nicolae, Gregory Scontras
    Pages 211-229

  13. Unknown Numbers

    • Rick Nouwen
    Pages 231-246

  14. Some Speculative Remarks on the Semantics of Money Phrases

    • Robert Pasternak
    Pages 247-260

  15. Quantifying the Register of German Quantificational Expressions: A Corpus-Based Study

    • Uli Sauerland
    Pages 261-273

  16. Domain Restricted Measure Functions and the Extent Readings of Relative Measures

    • Giorgos Spathas
    Pages 275-288

  17. Amazing-Hodo

    • Eri Tanaka
    Pages 289-306

  18. A Novel Probabilistic Approach to Linguistic Imprecision

    • Brandon Waldon
    Pages 307-327

  19. Modification of Measure Nouns

    • E. Cameron Wilson
    Pages 329-344

  20. Back Matter

    Pages 345-349
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About this book

This book brings together chapters on the semantics and pragmatics of measurement, scales, and numerical expressions. The chapters highlight recent developments in measurement theory, the meaning of numerical expressions and the relation between measurement scales and entailment scales. The authors provide explorations in formal and experimental semantics and pragmatics, as well as at the interfaces of this field with others including philosophy of language and sociolinguistics. This book will be of interest to students and scholars in these areas, as well as psychology, psycholinguistics and artificial intelligence.


Editors and Affiliations

  • Cognitive Science/Linguistics Department, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

    Nicole Gotzner

  • ZAS, Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics, Berlin, Germany

    Uli Sauerland

About the editors

Nicole Gotzner is the Director of SPA Lab at the University of Potsdam, Germany.

 

Uli Sauerland is the Vice Director and the leader of the Semantics and Pragmatics group at the Leibniz Centre for General Linguistics, Germany.

 


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Measurements, Numerals and Scales

  • Book Subtitle: Essays in Honour of Stephanie Solt

  • Editors: Nicole Gotzner, Uli Sauerland

  • Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73323-0

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-73322-3Published: 08 February 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-73325-4Published: 08 February 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-73323-0Published: 07 February 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2946-2576

  • Series E-ISSN: 2946-2584

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 349

  • Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Pragmatics, Philosophy of Language, Applied Linguistics, Cognitive Psychology

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