True Precision Required Adjectives of Veracity in Spanish as Imprecision Regulators

• Published in: Pristine Perspectives on Logic, Language, and Computation pp. 174 - 193
• Main Author: Masiá, Melania S.
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2014
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Subjects: adjectives of veracity; alternatives; degrees; imprecision

The aim of this paper is to offer an analysis of adjectives of veracity in Spanish (verdadero ‘true’, auténtico ‘authentic’) that accounts for their modification of nouns in terms of imprecision regulation. Slack regulators are elements that signal the intended degree of precision in the use of an e...