Exceptives and cardinality

Abstract

There are two schools of thoughts on exceptives. The “Fintelians” take exceptives to be modifiers of the NP argument of the determiner, while the “Anti-Fintelians” take them to be something else. I present the observation that exceptives do not tolerate cardinal determiners. I then discuss the problem it poses for two Anti-Fintelian analyses and propose a Fintelian account. The main idea of the account is that exceptives introduce subdomain alternatives.