TY - JOUR AU - Orenstein, Dina AU - Greenberg, Yael PY - 2019/05/09 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - A Flexible Exclusive Operator: The Case of the Hebrew 'be-sax ha-kol' (? 'all in all') JF - Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung JA - SuB VL - 17 IS - 0 SE - Articles DO - UR - https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/sub/index.php/sub/article/view/351 SP - 381-397 AB - <p>We offer a unified analysis of the Hebrew <em>be-sax ha-kol</em> (‘all in all’), according to which it is a scalar exclusive particle, under a modified definition of exclusives we develop. We claim that <em>be-sax ha-kol</em> differs from classical exclusives particles like <em>only</em> in that it is more flexible with respect to the set of alternatives to its prejacent. In particular, it can operate not only on “Roothian” alternatives to the prejacent, but also on different interpretational versions of the prejacent. We show how this proposal accounts for the fact that unlike <em>only</em>, <em>be-sax ha-kol</em> can trigger not only a clearly ‘exclusive’ reading, but also an ‘approximative’ one. We discuss the projective behavior of the prejacent of <em>be-sax ha-kol</em> in this reading, and the fact that it is infelicitous with L(ower)–scale adjectives.</p> ER -