@book{BowlerHsiehShenetal.2016,
  author    = {Bowler, Margit and Hsieh, I-Ta Chris and Shen, Zheng and Korat, Omer and Tran, Thuan},
  title     = {Proceedings of the Semantics of African, Asian and Austronesian Languages (TripleA) 2},
  editor    = {Grubic, Mira and Mucha, Anne},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-91742},
  publisher      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {64},
  year      = {2016},
  abstract  = {TripleA is a workshop series founded by linguists from the University of T{\"u}bingen and the University of Potsdam. Its aim is to provide a forum for semanticists doing fieldwork on understudied languages, and its focus is on languages from Africa, Asia, Australia and Oceania. The second TripleA workshop was held at the University of Potsdam, June 3-5, 2015.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Bowler2016,
  author    = {Bowler, Margit},
  title     = {The status of degrees in Warlpiri},
  series = {Proceedings of the Semantics of African, Asian and Austronesian Languages (TripleA) 2},
  journal   = {Proceedings of the Semantics of African, Asian and Austronesian Languages (TripleA) 2},
  editor    = {Grubic, Mira and Mucha, Anne},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-92295},
  pages     = {1 -- 17},
  year      = {2016},
  abstract  = {Recent work in semantics has shown that languages can vary in whether or not they include degrees (that is, elements of type < d >) in their semantic ontology. Several authors have argued that their languages of study lack degrees, including Bochnak (2013) for Washo (isolate, USA), Pearson (2009) for Fijian (Austronesian, Fiji), and Beck, et al. (2009) for Motu (Austronesian, Papua New Guinea). In this paper, I follow the tests proposed in Beck, et al. (2009) to assess the status of degrees in Warlpiri (Pama-Nyungan, Australia). I use Warlpiri data collected following the Beck, et al. survey to argue that Warlpiri gradable predicates do not combine with a degree argument. (Like many other Australian languages, adjectival concepts like big and small are expressed using nouns in Warlpiri (Dixon 1982, Bittner \& Hale 1995, among others). I refer to these lexical items as "gradable predicates" in this paper.) This paper represents a first pass at assessing the status of degrees in an Australian language, which have otherwise been unexamined from the point of view of degree semantics.},
  language  = {en}
}