An utterance of Some of the students are home usually triggers the inference that it is not the
case that the speaker believes that all students are home (Primary Scalar Implicature). It may …

The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, it proposes a compositional semantic analysis for
approximative kaada in Classical Arabic which has the property of being a clause-level …

This dissertation is about the meaning and distribution of the modifiers" almost" and" barely."
We advocate for an analysis in which they are, across their uses, modifiers of quantifiers …

This dissertation is about an adverbial which I have named “Contrarian” HARDLY. It is a
member of the family of approximative adverbs that includes: almost, barely, hardly, rarely …

An utterance of Some of the cards are hearts usually triggers the inference that the speaker
does not have the belief that all cards are hearts (primary scalar implicature). It often …

We claim that the meaning of the adverbial almost contains both a scalar proximity measure
and a modal that allows it to work sometimes when proximity fails, what we call the at-a …

Статья посвящена анализу семантики отрицательных местоимений в русском языке.
На данный момент существуют два основных подхода к этому вопросу. В рамках …

This paper makes a simple claim: The meaning of the adverbial almost contains a
counterfactual that allows it to work 'at a distance'even in the absence of proximity …