Titlebook: Measurements, Numerals and Scales; Essays in Honour of Nicole Gotzner,Uli Sauerland Book 2022 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author

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Evaluative Intensification and Positive Polarity: Catalan WELL as a Case Study,in its similar use as an ad-adjectival modifier (.) to investigate its meaning effect with different adjectives?(absolute vs. relative, negative vs. positive valence) and its behaviour in entailment-cancelling contexts. We argue that, unlike prototypical M-modifiers targeting degrees?at the middle p

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Number, Numbers and the Mass/Count Distinction in Daakie (Ambrym, Vanuatu),m, Vanuatu; the data are based on field work. It discusses the uses of dual and paucal as grammatical numbers that apply to two or a small number of objects, and their social meanings as expressing honorific and affiliative meanings. It also presents data showing that mass nouns can be used with num

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Representing Measurement: The View from Nominal Polysemy,h analyses to facts about the mental representation of quantity and measure. The goal of this paper is similar in mission, but draws on polysemy data. The English -th nouns expressing measurable dimensions . However, they all have other, interestingly diverging senses. . and . are geographical forma

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On the Status of Post-nominal Q Superlatives in Romanian,tion. We synthesize previous accounts, explaining the special status of post-nominal quantity superlatives by drawing on their similarities with the Double Definiteness Construction in Romanian. Following a suggestion by Dobrovie-Sorin and Giurgea (.), we argue that the Romanian post-nominal quantit

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Quantifying the Register of German Quantificational Expressions: A Corpus-Based Study,s suggested in previous work states that vague expressions should be associated with informality and precise expressions with formality. We introduce a novel corpus?measure, the SOLT, to quantify formality of an expression and show that it correlates well with established data on formality. We then

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