TY - JOUR AU - Katz, Graham PY - 2019/08/19 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Attitudes Toward Degrees JF - Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung JA - SuB VL - 9 IS - 0 SE - Articles DO - 10.18148/sub/2005.v9i0.727 UR - https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/sub/index.php/sub/article/view/727 SP - 183-196 AB - <p>Degree modifiers of the type exemplified in the sentence “<em>She was frustratingly late</em>” are analyzed. These modifiers, which indicate that a propositional attitude – here frustration – holds with respect to the degree associated with the predicate – here lateness, are shown to have certain monotonicity entailments which are absent from simple adverbial attitude reports such as “<em>Frustratingly, she was 10 minutes late.</em>” These entailments account for an interesting puzzle concerning the semantics of the degree modifiers which arises when standard analyses of attitude predicates are combined with standard accounts of degree modification.</p> ER -