States versus Tropes. Comments on C. Anderson and M. Morzycki: 'Degrees as Kinds'

Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 33 (3):829-841 (2015)
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Abstract

In their paper ‘Degrees as Kinds’, Anderson and Morzycki, demonstrate how certain constructions in a range of languages treat kinds, manners, and degrees alike. Their proposal is to identify degrees with kinds of states and they consider states to be interchangeable with tropes. In these comments, I will raise some issues about the interchangeability of (concrete) states and tropes as well as the category of concrete states as well as Anderson and Morzycki's analysis of the comparative.

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Friederike Moltmann
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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