Aesthetic adjectives lack uniform behavior

The goal of this short paper is to show that esthetic adjectives—exemplified by “beautiful” and “elegant”—do not pattern stably on a range of linguistic diagnostics that have been used to taxonomize the gradability properties of adjectives. We argue that a plausible explanation for this puzzling dat...

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Autores: Liao, Shen-yi, McNally, Louise, 1965-, Meskin, Aaron
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Data de publicação:2016
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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Palavra-chave:Aesthetic adjectives
Aesthetic concepts
Gradable adjectives
Predicates of personal taste
Experimental semantics
Experimental philosophy
Experimental philosophical aesthetics
Context
Comparison class
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spelling Aesthetic adjectives lack uniform behaviorLiao, Shen-yiMcNally, Louise, 1965-Meskin, AaronAesthetic adjectivesAesthetic conceptsGradable adjectivesPredicates of personal tasteExperimental semanticsExperimental philosophyExperimental philosophical aestheticsContextComparison classThe goal of this short paper is to show that esthetic adjectives—exemplified by “beautiful” and “elegant”—do not pattern stably on a range of linguistic diagnostics that have been used to taxonomize the gradability properties of adjectives. We argue that a plausible explanation for this puzzling data involves distinguishing two properties of gradable adjectives that have been frequently conflated: whether an adjective’s applicability is sensitive to a comparison class, and whether an adjective’s applicability is context-dependent.Shen-yi Liao’s work was supported by a European Community FP7 Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship, grant PIIF-GA-2012-328977. Louise McNally’s work was supported by Spanish MINECO grant FFI2013-41301-P, AGAUR grant 2014SGR698, and an ICREA Academia award.Taylor & Francis (Routledge)201720172016info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersionapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10230/32802http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2016.1208927reponame:Repositorio Digital de la UPFinstname:Universitat Pompeu FabraInglésInquiry. 2016; 59(6):618-31. DOI: 10.1080/0020174X.2016.1208927info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/1PE/FFI2013-41301-Pinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/328977© Taylor & Francis. This is an electronic version of an article published in Liao S, McNally L, Meskin A. Aesthetic adjectives lack uniform behavior. Inquiry. 2016; 59(6):618-31. DOI: 10.1080/0020174X.2016.1208927. Inquiry is available online at: www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0020174X.2016.1208927info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:repositori.upf.edu:10230/328022026-06-12T07:21:37Z
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title Aesthetic adjectives lack uniform behavior
spellingShingle Aesthetic adjectives lack uniform behavior
Liao, Shen-yi
Aesthetic adjectives
Aesthetic concepts
Gradable adjectives
Predicates of personal taste
Experimental semantics
Experimental philosophy
Experimental philosophical aesthetics
Context
Comparison class
title_short Aesthetic adjectives lack uniform behavior
title_full Aesthetic adjectives lack uniform behavior
title_fullStr Aesthetic adjectives lack uniform behavior
title_full_unstemmed Aesthetic adjectives lack uniform behavior
title_sort Aesthetic adjectives lack uniform behavior
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Liao, Shen-yi
McNally, Louise, 1965-
Meskin, Aaron
author Liao, Shen-yi
author_facet Liao, Shen-yi
McNally, Louise, 1965-
Meskin, Aaron
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Meskin, Aaron
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Aesthetic adjectives
Aesthetic concepts
Gradable adjectives
Predicates of personal taste
Experimental semantics
Experimental philosophy
Experimental philosophical aesthetics
Context
Comparison class
topic Aesthetic adjectives
Aesthetic concepts
Gradable adjectives
Predicates of personal taste
Experimental semantics
Experimental philosophy
Experimental philosophical aesthetics
Context
Comparison class
description The goal of this short paper is to show that esthetic adjectives—exemplified by “beautiful” and “elegant”—do not pattern stably on a range of linguistic diagnostics that have been used to taxonomize the gradability properties of adjectives. We argue that a plausible explanation for this puzzling data involves distinguishing two properties of gradable adjectives that have been frequently conflated: whether an adjective’s applicability is sensitive to a comparison class, and whether an adjective’s applicability is context-dependent.
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