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Comparatives without Degrees: A New Approach

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It has become common to analyse comparatives by using degrees, so that John is happier than Mary would in fact involve a comparison between the degree(s) to which John is happy and the degree(s) to which Mary is happy. I will argue that such analyses face serious conceptual and empirical problems. I will pursue an alternative analysis on which comparatives involve a comparison between particularized properties or tropes, the kinds of things nominalizations like John's happiness refer to
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Friederike Moltmann. Comparatives without Degrees: A New Approach. Proceedings of the Amsterdam Colloquium, 2005, pp.155-160. ⟨halshs-00791448⟩
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