Total Adjectives vs. Partial Adjectives: Scale Structure and Higher-Order Modifiers
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Carmen Rotstein
,
Yoad Winter
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@MISC{Rotstein_totaladjectives,
author = {Carmen Rotstein and Yoad Winter},
title = {Total Adjectives vs. Partial Adjectives: Scale Structure and Higher-Order Modifiers},
year = {}
}
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Abstract
This paper studies a distinction that was proposed in previous works between total and partial adjectives. In pairs of adjectives such as safe-dangerous, clean-dirty and healthy-sick, the first ("total") adjective describes lack of danger, dirt, malady etc., while the second ("partial") adjective describes the existence of such properties. It is shown
