Toward the Understanding of the Semantic Interpretational Mechanism in Linguistic Expressions with Scalar Structures

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This research project aims at elucidating how scale structures (a set of degrees) are manifested in the semantics of various linguistic expressions, including prepositions and verbs (especially change of state/location verbs). The analysis is given by the compositional semantics, which tries to map a syntactic structure directly to its semantic representation. The key to the analyses in both prepositions and verbs is the distribution of measure phrases.