@article{Gehrke_Castroviejo_2019, title={Good manners: On the degree effect of good events}, volume={20}, url={https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/sub/index.php/sub/article/view/262}, abstractNote={<p>This paper discusses the semantics of so-called ‘degree’ <em>well</em> in English and German, in examples such as <em>well loaded</em> and <em>gut beladen</em>. While in previous literature <em>well</em> is analysed as an ad-adjectival modifier (of closed scale adjectives), we propose to examine <em>well</em> as a manner adverb and to derive the manner vs. degree reading from the type of event <em>well</em> is a predicate of.</p>}, journal={Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung}, author={Gehrke, Berit and Castroviejo, Elena}, year={2019}, month={May}, pages={252–269} }