Abstract
In this chapter we present an overview of three main issues that have surrounded the study of gradable properties—vagueness, measurement, and dimensionality—and how they have been pursued from the perspectives of philosophy, linguistics, and psychology. We then provide a brief summary of each chapter in the volume, together with a guide to how the chapters relate to each other thematically.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Language, Cognition, and Mind |
| Publisher | Springer Nature |
| Pages | 1-24 |
| Number of pages | 24 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2018 |
Publication series
| Name | Language, Cognition, and Mind |
|---|---|
| Volume | 4 |
| ISSN (Print) | 2364-4109 |
| ISSN (Electronic) | 2364-4117 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2018, Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature.
Funding
Acknowledgements Most of the chapters in this volume are based on work presented at the workshop “Gradability, Scale Structure, and Vagueness: Experimental Perspectives,” held at CSIC’s Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales (CCHS) in Madrid, in May 2015; two additional contributions were invited. We thank the members of the Linguistics and Cognitive Science Group (LyCC), led by Violeta Demonte, for their support in the organization of the workshop. We are also grateful to our contributors and to the other participants in the workshop for the lively discussion we had there. We also acknowledge the various sources of funding that helped underwrite the workshop and the preparation of this volume. Castroviejo and Sassoon were partially supported by grant FFI2012-34170, from the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO). Castroviejo also acknowledges grant FFI2015-66732-P (Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness, and the European Regional Development Fund, FEDER, EU), the IT769-13 Research Group (Basque Government), and UFI11/14 (University of the Basque Country). McNally acknowledges Spanish grants FFI2013-41301-P (MINECO) and FFI2016-76045-P (AEI/MINEICO/FEDER, UE), AGAUR (Catalan government) grant 2014SGR698, an ICREA Foundation Acadèmia award, and the Department of Translation and Language Sciences at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Sassoon acknowledges the support of the German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development (GIF). Thanks also to our abstract and manuscript reviewers, to Helen van der Stelt and Jolanda Voogd at Springer, and especially to Chungmin Lee for his initial encouragement to produce this volume.
| Funders | Funder number |
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| Department of Translation and Language Sciences at Universitat Pompeu Fabra | |
| MINEICO | |
| European Commission | |
| German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development | |
| Generalitat de Catalunya | 2014SGR698 |
| Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca | |
| Eusko Jaurlaritza | UFI11/14 |
| Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad | FFI2015-66732-P |
| Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea | FFI2016-76045-P, FFI2013-41301-P |
| Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats | |
| European Regional Development Fund | |
| Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad, Gobierno de España | |
| Agencia Estatal de Investigación | |
| University of the East |
Keywords
- Adjectives
- Dimensionality
- Measurement
- Properties
- Semantics
- Vagueness