Abstract
AbstractMost theories of scalar quantifiers, of whatever persuasion, assume a lexical lower-bound-only, ‘at least’ meaning for scalar quantifiers, offering pragmatic or grammatical mechanisms for deriving the upper bound (Carston 1990; Chierchia 2004; Horn 1972 and onwards). I have challenged the lower-bound analysis in Ariel (2004), proposing instead a
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Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics
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8 articles.
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