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Linglib.Semantics.Degree.Gradability.Dimension

Scalar dimensions #

The axis a gradable predicate — an adjective, or a degree-achievement verb's base adjective — measures along. This is the single carrier the former Features.PerceptualDimension (perceptual channel) and ScalarTelicity.Dimension (scale structure) were both approximating; they are unified here so that RSA noise, adjective comparison-class dependence, and verb telicity are all views of one key.

Physical measurement dimensions (mass, volume-as-litres, …) are a different fibration — an extensive ℚ-measure, not a gradable scale — and stay in Features.Dimension.

Views #

Dimension is one more Core.Order.LicensingPipeline instance, so it shares the endpoint-licensing pipeline with Boundedness, MereoTag, and EpistemicTag.

The scalar dimension a gradable predicate measures along — the union of the perceptual adjective dimensions and the scalar-change verb dimensions.

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      The perceptual/cognitive channel — drives RSA noise.

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        The dimension's canonical scale shape. Polarity/standard-type are not here — they live on the adjective entry (min/max-standard adjectives select a pole of a closed scale). Reducible so the degree fiber's OrderTop/NoMaxOrder instances synthesise through it.

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          Degree fiber, grounded through Boundedness (proved once, not per dimension) #

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          Degree carrier per boundedness shape: a greatest element exists exactly when the scale HasMax. A computable order-proxy — only the OrderTop/NoMaxOrder mixin matters, not the carrier.

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            Grounding, proved once at the 4-case level.

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            Each dimension's degree type — inherited from its boundedness, so the grounding transports rather than re-casing per dimension.

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              The scale's order structure has a greatest element exactly when the dimension's canonical scale HasMax — grounded for all dimensions in one application.

              Derived aspectual views (verb side) #

              Default telicity of a degree achievement on this dimension: a scale with a greatest degree gives a telic reading ([KL08]).

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                Default Vendler class: degree achievements are dynamic and durative, so a closed scale gives an accomplishment, an open one an activity.

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                  The Kennedy–Levin thesis as a theorem. defaultTelicity is exactly the order-theoretic fact: a degree achievement is telic iff its scale's degree type has a greatest element — grounded in the scale's order structure, not stipulated.

                  The endpoint: one more LicensingPipeline instance #