A próxima sessão do Seminário CLUL decorrerá no próximo dia 12 de Dezembro, quinta-feira, entre as 17:00 e as 18:00, em formato presencial, na sala B112.D.

Lucia M. Tovena (Université Paris Cité)

Título: Modal superlatives and the stage-level vs. individual-level reading of the gradable adjective

Resumo: This talk is about the semantics of quality modal superlatives in predicative function, e.g. Italian E’ stata il più calma possibile (She was the calmest possible). We discuss an analysis based on a comparison class made of world+individual pairs grouped into equivalence classes defined through the amount of the gradable property. The stage-level reading of the adjective, although predominant, is shown not to be the manifestation of the invariance of the individual being compared.