Due to their hybrid nature, German adjectival participles display properties of both adjectives
and verbs. In particular, their verbal behaviour is evidenced by the restricted availability of …

This dissertation interrogates the boundary between scalarity and modality, two phenomena
which have lengthy but largely independent histories in natural language semantic analysis …

Abstract In American English, the intensifier totally presents a pragmatic use, in which it
strengthens the speaker's commitment towards the utterance (eg 'The Bulls will totally make …

Gradation is usually considered to be a property of adjectives. Gradable adjectives such as
tall can be used in comparative constructions such as (1a) and license degree expressions …

The ability to convey meaning is a fundamental property of human language. Three main
aspects, in particular, have drawn the attention of linguists: semantic meaning, that is, the …

The notion of comparison class has figured prominently in recent analyses of the gradability
properties of adjectives. We assume that the comparison class is introduced by the degree …

Definite descriptions may give rise to anaphoric interpretations. Addressing this, work in
semantics has led to syntactic claims that anaphora-encoding indices are syntactically …

Studies within the third-wave approach have unveiled the fluid nature of social meanings,
showing how speakers can creatively recruit and recombine linguistic resources to make …

Sentences involving disjunction under epistemic modal adjectives—such as possible, likely,
and certain—give rise to the inference that the disjuncts are epistemically possible …

Emphasis is a widely investigated notion in linguistics. In this article, we focus on emphasis
for intensity, a general linguistic strategy whereby linguistic objects are given prominence by …