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Aesthetic adjectives lack uniform behavior
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Autor/a:
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Liao, Shen-yi; McNally, Louise, 1965-; Meskin, Aaron
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Abstract:
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The goal of this short paper is to show that esthetic adjectives—exemplified by “beautiful” and “elegant”—do not pattern stably on a range of linguistic diagnostics that have been used to taxonomize the gradability properties of adjectives. We argue that a plausible explanation for this puzzling data involves distinguishing two properties of gradable adjectives that have been frequently conflated: whether an adjective’s applicability is sensitive to a comparison class, and whether an adjective’s applicability is context-dependent. |
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Shen-yi Liao’s work was supported by a European Community FP7 Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship, grant PIIF-GA-2012-328977. Louise McNally’s work was supported by Spanish MINECO grant FFI2013-41301-P, AGAUR grant 2014SGR698, and an ICREA Academia award. |
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Materia(s):
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-Aesthetic adjectives
-Aesthetic concepts
-Gradable adjectives
-Predicates of personal taste
-Experimental semantics
-Experimental philosophy
-Experimental philosophical aesthetics
-Context
-Comparison class |
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Derechos:
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© Taylor & Francis. This is an electronic version of an article published in Liao S, McNally L, Meskin A. Aesthetic adjectives lack uniform behavior. Inquiry. 2016; 59(6):618-31. DOI: 10.1080/0020174X.2016.1208927. Inquiry is available online at: www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0020174X.2016.1208927
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Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
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