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 & Nouwen (200...
Main Authors: | Ariel Cohen, Manfred Krifka |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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New Prairie Press
2010-12-01
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Series: | The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication |
Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.4148/biyclc.v6i0.1578 |
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