Determiners, Conservativity, Witnesses

A cherished semantic universal is that determiners are conservative (Barwise & Cooper 1981; Keenan & Stavi 1986). Well-known problem cases are only (if it has determiner uses) and certain uses of proportional determiners like many (Westerståhl 1985). Fortuny (2017), in a retracted contributi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Keenan, Edward L, von Fintel, Kai
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
Format: Article
Published: Oxford University Press (OUP) 2019
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/122462