Generative Perspectives on Degrees: The Semantics and Morphosyntax of Scalarity

The volume collects papers by leading semanticists, syntacticians, and morphologists working on the notion of degree. It aims at deepening our understanding of (i) the internal and external syntax of the standard clause;

(ii) the internal morphological structure of the comparative marker (e.g. -er in English); (iii) different semantic implementations of the notion of degree, (iv) the syntactic status and semantic contribution of standard markers, and (v) the distinction between phrasal and...