Scales in natural language
Stephanie Solt · 2013
The meaning of a wide variety of natural language expressions can be stated with respect to degrees on scales. This paper provides an overview of the contribution of scales to linguistic meaning: What are scales? Where do they come from? What is their role in language? Some initial steps are taken towards a general model of scale structure. The relation between scales of the semantic variety and those underlying pragmatic inferences – so-called Horn scales – is also briefly discussed.