A semantics for positive and comparative adjectives Page 1 EWAN KLEIN A SEMANTICS FOR
POSITIVE AND COMPARATIVE ADJECTIVES* CONTENTS 1. Introduction 1.1. The Degree …

Are there such things as merely possible people, who would have lived if our ancestors had
acted differently? Are there future people, who have not yet been conceived? Questions like …

This book offers a unique synthesis of past and current work on the structure, meaning, and
use of negation and negative expressions, a topic that has engaged thinkers from Aristotle …

John MacFarlane debates how we might make sense of the idea that truth is relative, and
how we might use this idea to give satisfying accounts of parts of our thought and talk that …

If you keep removing single grains of sand from a heap, when is it no longer a heap? From
discussions of the heap paradox in classical Greece, to modern formal approaches like …

Modifiers and modification have been a major focus of inquiry for as long as the formal study
of semantics has existed, and remain at the heart of major theoretical debates in the field …

My aim is to sketch a general abstract account of the notion of presupposition, and to argue
that the presupposition relation which linguists talk about should be explained in terms of …

What is it that matters in survival? Suppose I wonder whether I will survive the coming battle,
brainwashing, brain transplant, journey by matter-transmitter, purported reincarnation or …

Monika Fludernik presents a detailed analysis of free indirect discourse as it relates to
narrative theory, and the crucial problematic of how speech and thought are represented in …

Conditional sentences are among the most intriguing and puzzling features of language:
analysis of their meaning and function has important implications for, and uses in, many …