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