Vagueness is a pervasive feature of natural language, which has been studied from a range
of perspectives. This review focuses on recent empirical insights into vagueness that have …

This book presents a new theory of the relationship between vagueness, context-sensitivity,
gradability, and scale structure in natural language. Heather Burnett argues that it is …

The standard degree analysis of gradability in English holds that the function of degree
morphology, such as the comparative, measure phrases, and degree adverbs, is to bind a …

3 Purpose-relativity in degree constructions 79 3.1 Introduction................................. 79 3.2 Not
a regular relative clause........................ 81 3.2. 1 Introducing the puzzle and an existing …

The term “vagueness” describes a property of natural concepts, which normally have fuzzy
boundaries, admit borderline cases, and are susceptible to Zeno's sorites paradox. We will …

Esta investigación está dedicada a la distinción aspectual entre Estados y Eventos y sus
manifestaciones en la lengua española. La tesis principal que aquí se avanza es que dicha …

Morphologically Derived Adjectives in Spanish Page 1 Morphologically Derived Adjectives in
Spanish Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics Antonio Fábregas 30 John Benjamins …

The goal of this short paper is to show that esthetic adjectives—exemplified by “beautiful”
and “elegant”—do not pattern stably on a range of linguistic diagnostics that have been used …

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 …

This chapter surveys some recent studies of aesthetic adjectives in theoretical and
experimental linguistics, evaluates the impact of these studies on our conceptual …