Table of Contents

1: Introduction 2: Vagueness and linguistic analysis 3: Context-sensitivity and vagueness patterns 4: The Delineation TCS framework 5: Scale structure in Delineation Semantics 6: Beyond Delineation Semantics 7: Beyond the adjectival domain 8: Conclusion

About the Author

Heather Burnett is a CNRS researcher in the Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle at l'Universite Paris 7-Denis Diderot. In 2012, she completed her PhD thesis in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Los Angeles under the supervision of Edward Keenan and Dominique Sportiche. From 2012-2014, she was a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow at l'Universite de Montreal; from 2014-2015, she was a CNRS postdoctoral researcher at l'Universite de Toulouse 2-Jean Jaures; and in 2015, she was a Banting postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto. Her work on formal semantics, formal syntax, and language variation and change has appeared in Linguistic Variation, Linguistics and Philosophy, and Journal of Semantics.