Focus, Evaluativity, and Antonymy A Study in the Semantics of Only a
This book uncovers properties of focus association with 'only' by examining the interaction between the particle and bare (or “evaluative”) gradable terms. Its empirical building blocks are paradigms involving upward-scalar terms like 'few' and 'rarely',
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Sam Alxatib
Focus, Evaluativity, and Antonymy A Study in the Semantics of Only and its Interaction with Gradable Antonyms
Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy Volume 104
Series Editors Cleo Condoravdi, Cordura Hall, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA Louise McNally, Translation and Language Sciences, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain Zoltan Szabo, Department of Philosophy, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA Editorial Board Members Johan van Benthem, Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Gregory N. Carlson, Department of Linguistics, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA David Dowty, Department of Linguistics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA Gerald Gazdar, School of Cognitive & Computing Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK Irene Heim, Department of Linguistics & Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA Ewan Klein, Division of Informatics, ICCS, Edinburgh, UK Bill Ladusaw, Department of Linguistics, Cowell College, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA Terence Parsons, Department of Philosophy, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy publishes monographs and edited volumes that focus on issues related to structure and meaning in natural language, as addressed in the semantics, philosophy of language, pragmatics and related disciplines, in particular the following areas: • philosophical theories of meaning and truth, reference, description, entailment, presupposition, implicatures, context-dependence, and speech acts • linguistic theories of semantic interpretation in relation to syntactic structure and prosody, of discourse structure, lexical semantics and semantic change • psycholinguistic theories of semantic interpretation and issues of the processing and acquisition of natural language, and the relation of semantic interpretation to other cognitive faculties • mathematical and logical properties of natural language and general aspects of computational linguistics • philosophical questions raised by linguistics as a science. This book series is associated with the journal Linguistics and Philosophy: http:// www.springer.com/journal/10988
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Sam Alxatib
Focus, Evaluativity, and Antonymy A Study in the Semantics of Only and its Interaction with Gradable Antonyms
Sam Alxatib The Graduate Center CUNY, New York, NY, USA
ISSN 0924-4662 ISSN 2215-034X (electronic) Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy ISBN 978-3-030-37805-9 ISBN 978-3-030-37806-6 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37806-6 © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and
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