Measurements, Numerals and Scales

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Nicole Gotzner is the Director of SPA Lab at the University of Potsdam, Germany.

Uli Sauerland is the Vice Director and the leader of the Semantics and Pragmatics group at the Leibniz Centre for General Linguistics, Germany.

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Partitives, Comparatives and Proportional Measurement.- Chapter 3. Modified Numerals, Vagueness, and Scale Granularity.- Chapter 4. Uncertainty, quantity and relevance inferences from modified numerals.- Chapter 5. Around "around".- Chapter 6. Evaluative intensification and positive polarity: Catalan WELL as a case study.- Chapter 7.  She is brilliant! Distinguishing different readings of relative adjectives.- Chapter 8. Numerals denote degree quantifiers: Evidence from child language.- Chapter 9. Number, Numbers and the Mass/Count Distinction in Daakie (Ambrym, Vanuatu).- Chapter 10. Representing measurement: The view from nominal polysemy.- Chapter 11. On the status of post-nominal Q superlatives in Romanian.- Chapter 12. Unknown numbers.- Chapter 13. Some speculative remarks on the semantics of money phrases.- Chapter 14. Quantifying the register of German quantificational expressions: A corpus based study.- Chapter 15. Domain-restrictedmeasure functions and the extent readings of relative measures.- Chapter 16. Amazing-hodo.- Chapter 17. A novel probabilistic approach to linguistic imprecision.- Chapter 18. Modification of measure nouns.