Alan Bale is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Concordia University in Montréal. He received his PhD from McGill in 2006 and did his post-doctoral studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2006-8). His work discusses number, comparison and grammatical competition, exploring grammatical representations in both children and adults. Recent publications include “A universal scale of comparison” (Linguistics and Philosophy), “The interpretation of functional heads: Using comparatives to explore the mass/count distinction” (with D. Barner, Journal of Semantics), and “Scales and comparison classes” (Natural Language Semantics).