Richard Vallée
List of John Benjamins publications for which Richard Vallée plays a role.
Articles
2012 On local bars and imported beer Pragmatics & Cognition 20:1, pp. 62–87 | Article
“Imported” is a member of a large family of adjectives, including “enemy”, “domestic”, “local”, “exported”, “foreign”. Call these terms contextuals. Contextuals are prima facie context-sensitive expressions in that the same contextual sentence can have different truth-values, and hence different… read more
2010 Unarticulated comparison classes Pragmatics & Cognition 18:2, pp. 340–364 | Article
Relative gradable adjectives (“tall”, “big”) raise serious problems in semantics. First, I explore a few intuitions about relative gradable predicates and clarify some points. Second, I propose a multipropositionalist, Perry-inspired, perspective on relative gradable predicate utterances. Perry’s… read more