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Pluractional comparisons

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This paper develops a semantic analysis of data like It is getting colder and colder. Their meaning is argued to arise from a combination of a comparative with pluractionality. The analysis is embedded in a general theory of plural predication and pluractionality. It supports a semantic theory involving a family of syntactic plural operators.

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Beck, S. Pluractional comparisons. Linguist and Philos 35, 57–110 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10988-012-9111-3

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