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Chapitre D'ouvrage Année : 2022

Around "Around"

Paul Egré

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This chapter, written in honor of Stephanie Solt, briefly reports on the reasons to adopt a weak parametric semantics for approximators like ``around''. I review Solt's own account and discuss evidence in favor of more flexibility in the truth-conditions of ``around'' than suggested by her account. I present the truth conditions proposed in recent joint work with B. Spector, A. Mortier, and S. Verheyen, and explain how they were derived from a previous sketch in which ``around'' is characterized in terms of existential quantification over intervals. This quantificational structure remains worthy of consideration.
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hal-03511936 , version 1 (05-01-2022)

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Paul Egré. Around "Around". Nicole Gotzner, Uli Sauerland. Measurement, Numerals and Scales: Essays in honor of Stephanie Solt, Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition, 2022. ⟨hal-03511936⟩
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