{"id":466,"date":"2024-01-17T11:26:37","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T16:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/?p=466"},"modified":"2024-01-17T11:26:37","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T16:26:37","slug":"gong-coppock-publish-in-natural-language-semantics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/2024\/01\/17\/gong-coppock-publish-in-natural-language-semantics\/","title":{"rendered":"Gong &#038; Coppock publish in Natural Language Semantics!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ying Gong and Elizabeth Coppock have published an article in <em>Natural Language Semantics<\/em> showing the existence of degree abstraction in Mandarin. Could degree abstraction actually be a universal feature of natural language?? Even if not, we have some rock-solid arguments that degree abstraction exists in Mandarin despite previous claims to the contrary.<\/p>\n<p>Officially published version at Natural Language Semantics here: <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s11050-023-09217-w\">https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s11050-023-09217-w<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eecoppock.info\/Gong+Coppock-Mandarin-NALS-accepted-manuscript.pdf\">Here<\/a> is a link to the accepted manuscript (no paywall).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ying Gong and Elizabeth Coppock have published an article in Natural Language Semantics showing the existence of degree abstraction in Mandarin. Could degree abstraction actually be a universal feature of natural language?? Even if not, we have some rock-solid arguments that degree abstraction exists in Mandarin despite previous claims to the contrary. Officially published version [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14844,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14844"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":467,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions\/467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}