Quantifiers in Than-Clauses

The paper reexamines the interpretations that quantifiers in "than"-clauses give rise to. It develops an analysis that combines an interval semantics for the "than"-clause with a standard semantics for the comparative operator. In order to mediate between the two, interpretive me...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sigrid Beck
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Linguistic Society of America 2010-01-01
Series:Semantics and Pragmatics
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Online Access:http://semprag.org/article/view/80