Diagnosing truth, interactive sincerity, and depictive sincerity
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Diagnosing truth , interactive sincerity , and depictive sincerity ∗
This paper presents two experimental findings pertaining to the semantics and pragmatics of superlative modifiers (at least, at most). First, in a scenario with N objects of a given type, speakers consistently judge it true that there are ‘at least N’ and ‘at most N’ objects of that type. This supports the debated position that the ignorance conveyed by superlative modifiers is an implicature, ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Semantics and Linguistic Theory
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2163-5951
DOI: 10.3765/salt.v0i0.2662