Focus, evaluativity, and antonymy [electronic resource] : a study in the semantics of only and its interaction with gradable antonyms / Sam Alxatib.

This book uncovers properties of focus association with 'only' by examining the interaction between the particle and bare (or "evaluative") gradable terms. Its empirical building blocks are paradigms involving upward-scalar terms like 'few' and 'rarely', and t...

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Main Author: Alxatib, Sam
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer, 2020.
Series:Studies in linguistics and philosophy ; 104.
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