The Emergence of Scalar Meanings

This paper analyzes the emergence of scalar additive meanings. We show that in Basque the same particle ere can obtain both the ‘simple additive’ reading (akin to English too) and the ‘scalar additive’ reading (akin to English even) but we argue that we do not have to distinguish two types of ere. W...

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Main Authors: Urtzi eEtxeberria, Aritz eIrurtzun
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00141/full