Three Readings of Most

In this paper we show that most DPs in subject position can receive three kinds of truth-condition, yielding a proportional reading, a ‘regular’ superlative reading and a ‘partition-based’ superlative reading. We propose an analysis of the three readings that views them as resulting from the interac...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kotek, Hadas, Sudo, Yasutada, Howard, Edwin Martin, Hackl, Martin
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Linguistic Society of America 2020
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/127649

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