Modal Comparisons: Two Dilletantes in Search of an Expert

We express our puzzlement over the role of the German comparative form “eher” in metalinguistic and modal comparisons. We can’t do this alone. We have data, we have observations, we have speculations, but we need you to tell us what to do with them. We want to sit down with you and work on this toge...

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Main Authors: von Fintel, Kai, Kratzer, Angelika
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/95783
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description We express our puzzlement over the role of the German comparative form “eher” in metalinguistic and modal comparisons. We can’t do this alone. We have data, we have observations, we have speculations, but we need you to tell us what to do with them. We want to sit down with you and work on this together.
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spelling mit-1721.1/957832022-10-01T09:59:51Z Modal Comparisons: Two Dilletantes in Search of an Expert von Fintel, Kai Kratzer, Angelika Massachusetts Institute of Technology. School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences von Fintel, Kai von Fintel, Kai We express our puzzlement over the role of the German comparative form “eher” in metalinguistic and modal comparisons. We can’t do this alone. We have data, we have observations, we have speculations, but we need you to tell us what to do with them. We want to sit down with you and work on this together. 2015-03-03T22:04:16Z 2015-03-03T22:04:16Z 2014 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/BookItem http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/95783 von Fintel, Kai, and Angelika Kratzer. (2014). "Modal Comparisons: Two Dilletantes in Search of an Expert." In Luka Crnic and Uli Sauerland (eds.), The Art and Craft of Semantics: A Festschrift for Irene Heim, vol. 1, MITWPL 70, pp. 175–179. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7912-4246 en_US http://semanticsarchive.net/Archive/jZiNmM4N/FintelKratzer.pdf The Art and Craft of Semantics: A Festschrift for Irene Heim, vol. 1 Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf MIT Working Papers in Linguistics Von Fintel
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