Grading Similarity

Abstract There are numerous words across languages expressing similarity or indistinguishability. In this paper, three types of expressions in German and English compared— ähnlich / similar , so/such gleich same . They differ a number respects, one them being gradability: While ähnlich/similar gradable, as well gleich/same not. The analysis paper starts from the so demonstrative (instead identity) to its demonstration target (Umbach Gust 2014). It is suggested that meaning based on common relation, while differences provided by constraints referring selection dimensions comparison preconditions usage. focus gradability question what it means for pair items be more than another pair. An spirit Klein (1980) presented accounting fact gradable neither nor are. formal framework makes use representations attribute spaces classifiers, where may different granularity.