The ingredients of comparison: The semantics of the excessive construction in Japanese
Excessives (e.g., this pair of pants is <em>too</em> long) are often considered as a ‘degree construction’ in the literature, presumably because it is assumed that their semantics involves a comparison of degrees. This paper takes a cross-linguistic look at the excessive construction in...
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| Language: | English |
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Linguistic Society of America
2015-05-01
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| Series: | Semantics and Pragmatics |
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| Online Access: | http://semprag.org/article/view/2942 |