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In English, using the comparative more with a mass noun (more co ee) allows comparison along various dimensions, including volume and weight, while using more with a plural (more cats) typically only allows comparison by cardinality. Wellwood (2019) proposes to capture these facts via a constraint on the measure function μ expressed by the comparative when it is combined with a nominal expression whose denotation P has a parthood relation ≤. Wellwood’s constraint is that μ must satisfy ‘automorphism invariance’:
在英语中，将比较级more与质量名词(more co ee)连用，可以在不同的维度上进行比较，包括体积和重量，而将more与复数(more cats)连用，通常只能通过基数进行比较。Wellwood(2019)提出，当比较词与外延P具有部分关系≤的名义表达式相结合时，通过对测量函数μ的约束来捕捉这些事实。Wellwood的约束是μ必须满足“自同构不变性”:
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