Aesthetic Adjectives

McNally, Louise; Stojanovic, Isidora

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“…healthy, smart) do not need to be experiencers (e.g. McNally & Stojanovic 2017;Bylinina 2014). The new experiment presented in this paper builds on our earlier work (Kaiser & Herron Lee to appear) but used stimuli that avoided potential concerns about pronoun interpretation confounding or biasing the judge interpretation effects.…”

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“…smart, healthy) do not have an experiencer argument (e.g. Bylinina 2014;McNally & Stojanovic 2017). In essence, for something to be 'fun' or 'tasty', someone must have the relevant experience (usually the speaker), but for something/someone to be 'stupid' or 'healthy', no such experiencing is necessary.…”

Section: The Contribution Of Experience To the Meaning Of Subjective mentioning

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“…evaluative use of the find construction -have generated debate and do not always yield a reliable diagnostic (see e.g. McNally & Stojanovic 2017;Saebø 2009;Kennedy 2013;Bylinina 2014: 34 for discussion). In our work, we explore the possibility of probing the contribution of experiencers by means of verb argument structure, as discussed in Sections 2 and 3.…”

Section: The Contribution Of Experience To the Meaning Of Subjective mentioning

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“…Kamp 1975;Klein 1980;Sassoon 2013;Kennedy 2013;Stojanovic & McNally 2017) is also commonly viewed as involving subjectivity. Adjective such as healthy, ugly, beautiful and stupid are multidimensional because they involve multiple criteria that can be used for ranking/ordering individuals with the property.…”

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“…tall, old), for which "exactly one criterion is used to order individuals according to the property [they] describe" (McNally & Stojanovic 2017: 20). With multidimensional adjectives, subjectivity stems from the fact that individuals can disagree regarding the significance of each dimension (McNally & Stojanovic 2017, see also Kennedy 2013Bylinina 2014). For example, is Amy healthier than Bill if she has a severe immune disorder that is controlled by medication, but he has a mild heart condition that sometimes impacts his daily life?…”

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Experience matters: A psycholinguistic investigation of predicates of personal taste

Kaiser

Lee

2017

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We discuss two psycholinguistic experiments on subjective adjectives, with the aim of testing the idea that predicates of personal taste (PPTs, e.g. fun, tasty) and non-PPT multidimensional adjectives (e.g. smart, healthy) differ in terms of the perspective-taking they involve. Although both are widely regarded as involving a judge/evaluator, it has recently been proposed that the judge of a PPT needs to be an experiencer, while judges of multidimensional non-PPT adjectives do not have this requirement. We report a new study investigating this claim that builds on and extends our earlier work, by using sentences with one animate and one inanimate argument. This allows us to avoid potential complications from pronoun ambiguity. We manipulated verb argument structure (Experiencer-Theme vs. Agent-Patient verbs) to test if PPTs prefer experiencer judges. The results confirm that PPTs, but not non-PPT multidimensional adjectives, are sensitive to the presence of an experiencer thematic role.

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Experience matters: A psycholinguistic investigation of predicates of personal taste

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Evaluative Predicates

Umbach

2020

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This chapter is about evaluative predicates and their interpretation. In the first part, data are presented addressing the question of which predicates should be considered as evaluative and why. Predicates under consideration range from personal taste ( tasty , fun) and aesthetics ( beautiful ) to one‐dimensional ( tall ) and multidimensional predicates ( healthy , smart ). The data part is concluded by a section about subjective attitude verbs like English find that are widely regarded as a testing ground for evaluative predicates. In the second part of this chapter, a range of theoretical positions are considered including relativist accounts as well as different varieties of contextualist accounts. Finally, two prominent sources from philosophy provide a broader historical context.

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Are Moral Predicates Subjective? A Corpus Study

Stojanovic

McNally

2023

Logic, Argumentation &Amp; Reasoning

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The nature of moral judgments, and, more specifically, the ques0on of how they relate, on the one hand, to objec0ve reality and, on the other, to subjec0ve experience, are issues that have been central to metaethics from its very beginnings. While these complex and challenging issues have been debated by analy0c philosophers for over a century, it is only rela0vely recently that more interdisciplinary and empirically-oriented approaches to such issues have begun to see light. The present chapter aims to make a contribu0on of that kind. We will present the results of an empirical -specifically, corpus linguis0c -study that offers evidence that moral predicates exhibit hallmarks of subjec0vity at the linguis0c level, but also, that they differ significantly from paradigma0cally subjec0ve predicates.

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Aesthetic Adjectives

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Experience matters: A psycholinguistic investigation of predicates of personal taste

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