# Readings

Barker, Chris. "The Dynamics of Vagueness." Linguistics and Philosophy 25 (2002): 1-36.

Bhatt, R. and R. Pancheva. “Late Merge of Degree Clauses.” University of Texas, Austin and USC, 2002. Ms. To appear in Linguistic Inquiry.

Bierwisch, Manfred. "The Semantics of Gradation." In Dimensional Adjectives. Edited by Manfred Bierwisch and Ewald Lang. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1989, pp. 71-261.

Carlson, Greg N. "Reference to Kinds in English." Doctoral Dissertation, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1977.

Cresswell, M. J. "The Semantics of Degree." In Montague Grammar. Edited by Barbara Partee. New York: Academic Press, 1977, pp. 261-292.

Farkas, Donka F., and Katalan È. Kiss. "On the Comparative and Absolute Readings of Superlatives." Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 18, no. 3 (2000): 417-455.

Graff, Delia. "Shifting Sands: An Interest-relative Theory of Vagueness." Philosophical Topics 20 (2000): 45-81.

Grosu, Alexander, and Fred Landman. "Strange Relatives of the Third Kind." Natural Language Semantics 6 (1998): 125-170.

Hackl, Martin. "Comparative Quantifiers." Doctoral Dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000.

Heim, Irene. "Degree Operators and Scope." In Proceedings of SALT X. Ithaca, N.Y.: CLC Publications, 2000.

Heim, Irene. "Where Does the Definiteness Restriction Apply? Evidence from the Definiteness of Variables." In The Representation of (in)definiteness. Edited by Eric Reuland and Alice ter Meulen, chap. 2, pp. 21-42. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1987.

Heim, Irene. "Notes on Comparatives and Related Matters." University of Texas, Austin, 1985. Unpublished ms.

Kamp, J. A. W. "Two Theories of Adjectives." In Formal Semantics of Natural Language. Edited by Edward Keenan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975, pp. 123-155.

Kennedy, Christopher. "The Grammar of Vagueness." Northwestern University, 2002. Ms. (PDF)

Kennedy, Christopher. "Polar Opposition and the Ontology of 'Degrees'." Linguistics and Philosophy 24 (2001): 33-70.

Kennedy, Christopher. Projecting the Adjective: The Syntax and Semantics of Gradability and Comparison. New York: Garland, 1999. (1997 UCSC Ph.D. thesis).

Kennedy, Christopher, and Beth Levin. "Telicity Corresponds to Degree of Change." Northwestern University and Stanford University, 2002. Unpublished ms.

Kennedy, Christopher, and Louise McNally. "Scale Structure and the Semantic Typology of Gradable Predicates." 2002. Unpublished ms.

Klein, Ewan. "A Semantics for Positive and Comparative Adjectives." Linguistics and Philosophy 4 (1980): 1-45.

Kyburg, Alice, and Michael Morreau. "Fitting Words: Vague Language in Context." Linguistics and Philosophy 23 (2000): 577-597.

Lerner, Jean-Yves, and Manfred Pinkal. "Comparatives and Nested Quantification." Technical report, Universit¨at des Saarlandes. CLAUS Report Nr. 21, 1992.

Ludlow, Peter. "Implicit Comparison Classes." Linguistics and Philosophy 12 (1989): 519-533.

Rullmann, Hotze. "Maximality in the Semantics of wh-constructions." Doctoral Dissertation, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1995.

Sapir, Edward. "Grading: A Study in Semantics." Philosophy of Science 11 (1944): 93-116.

Schwarzschild, Roger. "The Grammar of Measurement." In Proceedings of SALT XII. Edited by Brendan Jackson. Ithaca, N.Y.: CLC Publications, 2002.

Schwarzschild, Roger, and Karina Wilkinson. "Quantifiers in Comparatives: A Semantics of Degree Based on Intervals." Natural Language Semantics 10 (2002): 1-41.

Sharvit, Yael, and Penka Stateva. "Against 'long' Movement of the Superlative Operator." In Proceedings of SALT X. Ithaca, N.Y.: CLC Publications, 2000, pp. 185-202.

von Stechow, Arnim. "Comparing Semantic Theories of Comparison." Journal of Semantics 3 (1984): 1-77.

Unger, Peter. Ignorance. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975.