A challenge for the semantic and pragmatic analysis of modified numerals is how to account
for ignorance implications about exact quantity. Superlative-modified numerals (at least/most …

Abstract Spector (2006) and Fox (2007a) observed that a standard Neo-Gricean account of
Quantity implicature, as articulated in Sauerland 2004, predicts listeners to draw inconsistent …

In this paper I argue for a new constraint on questions, namely that a questiondenotation (a
set of propositions) must map to a partition of a Stalnakerian Context-Set bypoint-wise …

Let us return to the question of whether the two readings differ in event complex-ity. This
would mean that the verbs under discussion productively have two event construals. Two …

La thèse avance des arguments en support de la représentation explicite des éléments
responsables pour la référence directe et pour les restrictions du domaine dans les …

The expression of modal notions cuts across morphosyntactic categories. Moving beyond
the verbal domain, we find, across languages, types of indefinite noun phrases that convey …

Nouwen (2010) proposes that numeral modifiers like “at most” and “up to” belong to a
natural class of expressions that share the same semantic interpretation. We identify several …

Japanese is known to have rich encoding of information structure in its grammar. Focus and
givenness can be prosodically marked, and there are syntactic structures that are sensitive …

Abstract This commentary revisits Coppock & Brochhagen's 2013 account of speaker
ignorance inferences associated with at least. The general principle that Coppock & …

At least and quantity implicature: Choices and consequences Page 193 At least and Quantity
Implicature: Choices and Consequences∗ Bernhard Schwarz McGill University, Montreal …