Superlative Quantifiers as Modifiers of Meta-Speech Acts

<p>The superlative quantifiers, <em>at least</em> and  <em>at most</em>, are commonly assumed  to have the same truth-conditions as the comparative quantifiers  <em>more than </em>and  <em>fewer than</em>. However, as Geurts &amp; Nouwen (200...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ariel Cohen, Manfred Krifka
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: New Prairie Press 2010-12-01
Series:The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.4148/biyclc.v6i0.1578