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