SEMANTICS OF PRESSURE IN PONDEROUS ADJECTIVES

Q-Adjectives and the Semantics of Quantity

The adjectives of quantity (Q-adjectives) many, few, much and little stand out from other quantity expressions on account of their syntactic flexibility, occurring in positions that could be called quantificational (many students attended), predicative (John’s friends were many), attributive (the many students), differential (much more than a liter) and adverbial (slept too much). This broad di...

A Semantics for Positive and Comparative Adjectives

A Vector Space Semantics for Dimensional Adjectives

The paper presents a compositional semantics for comparatives of dimensional adjectives within the framework of vector space semantics, including measure phrases and comparison of deviation.

On the Semantics of Domain Adjectives in English

Crucial interaction: EUect of position weaker for items from Class I (.42) than Class II (1.02), t = 2.72, p < 0.05; while this diUerence between a/b conditions not signiVcant, c was rated worse than every other condition. Issue: DAS cannot be uniformly paraphrased as elided RRCs, cf. B. Schwarz (2005); Blöhdorn (2009). (6) The captain sailed every passage possible | navigable a. it was possibl...

Modelling the Semantics of Adjectives in the Ontology-Lexicon Interface

The modelling of the semantics of adjectives is notoriously challenging. We consider this problem in the context of the so called ontology-lexicon interface, which attempts to capture the semantics of words by reference to an ontology in description logics or some other, typically first-order, logical formalism. The use of first order logic (hence also description logics), while effective for n...