Galit Weidman Sassoon - PhD Dissertation (2007)

* The dissertation in one file (PDF)

* The dissertation by chapters:

    [In order to allow 2-sided printing, some chapters begin with the last page of the previous chapter]

• Preface, Acknowledgements and Table of Contents

• Overview in Hebrew

• Part 1 - Introduction and Data (opening page)

• Introduction

• From natural categories to predicate types, two sets of facts

• Part 2 - Existing theories (opening page)

• Vagueness, gradability and typicality: An overview of linguistic theories

• Vagueness, gradability and typicality: The psychological perspective

• Part 3 - A new semantic analysis (opening page)

• Motivations for my proposal

• Partial knowledge about gradability and typicality

• A degree-function based typology of predicates

• The learning principle and complex concepts

• Gradability in positive and negative predicates: My proposal

• Appendices and References