Titlebook: Vagueness in Communication; International Worksh Rick Nouwen,Robert Rooij,Hans-Christian Schmitz Conference proceedings 2011 The Editor(s)

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Conference proceedings 2011 France, July 20-24, 2009.The 11 contributions presented shed a light on new aspects in the area of vaguenessin natural language communication. In contrast to the classical instruments of dealing with vagueness - like multi-valued logics, truth value gaps or gluts, or supervaluations - this volume p

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Perceptual Ambiguity and the Sorites,In particular, I discuss ways in which the account of tolerance outlined in [6] can be related to Smith’s [37] fuzzy account, as well as to the similarity-based semantics for vague predicates proposed by van Rooij [34] and explored in recent work with Cobreros et al. [4].

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Notes on the Comparison Class,n argument of a null positive morpheme (contra Kennedy [13]), in parallel to recent proposals for the superlative (e.g. Heim [9]). The implications of the analysis for the choice between degree- and delineation-based analyses of gradable adjectives are discussed.

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Contradictions at the Borders,e case of ‘rich’, then ‘Jackie is rich and Jackie isn’t rich’ is a borderline contradiction. Many theories of vague language have entailments about borderline contradictions; correctly describing the behavior of borderline contradictions is one of the many tasks facing anyone offering a theory of vague language.

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Conference proceedings 2011trast to the classical instruments of dealing with vagueness - like multi-valued logics, truth value gaps or gluts, or supervaluations - this volume presents new approaches like context-sensitivity of vagueness, the sharpening of vague predicates in context, and the modeling of precision levels.