Subset Comparatives as Comparative Quantifiers
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https://doi.org/10.18148/sub/2015.v19i0.244Abstract
This paper is concerned with the meaning of the “subset comparative” construction: John saw more phonologists than just Mary seems to assert that John saw more than one phonologist, and presuppose that John saw Mary (the prejacent) and that Mary is a phonologist. Together, the assertion and the two presuppositions entail that John saw other phonologists in addition to Mary. In this paper, I argue that the meaning can be derived by an extension of the analysis originally proposed by Hackl (2000) for comparative quantifiers like more than three.Downloads
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Nussbaum, M. (2019). Subset Comparatives as Comparative Quantifiers. Proceedings of Sinn Und Bedeutung, 19, 465–482. https://doi.org/10.18148/sub/2015.v19i0.244
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