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Internal and Interval Semantics for CP-Comparatives

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Logic, Language and Meaning

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The interval degree semantics for clausal (CP)-comparatives given in [5] is shown to be equivalent to a point degree semantics in which the CP-external degree relation is interpreted internal to the CP.

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  1. Linguistics Department, Tel Aviv University,  

    Fred Landman

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    Maria Aloni , Harald Bastiaanse , Tikitu de Jager  & Katrin Schulz , ,  & 

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Landman, F. (2010). Internal and Interval Semantics for CP-Comparatives. In: Aloni, M., Bastiaanse, H., de Jager, T., Schulz, K. (eds) Logic, Language and Meaning. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6042. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14287-1_14

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