Alternatives and competition in language are pervasive at all levels of linguistic analysis.
More specifically, alternatives have been argued to play a prominent role in an ever-growing …

Free choice inferences represent a much discussed case of a divergence between logic and
language (Kamp 1973, Zimmermann 2000). Grice influentially argued that the assumption …

In many languages, the same particles that form quantifier words also serve as connectives,
additive and scalar particles, question markers, roots of existential verbs, and so on. Do …

This book focuses on the semantic phenomenon of evaluativity and its consequences
across constructions. Evaluativity has traditionally been associated exclusively with the …

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 …

This paper provides a lexical entry schema for exclusives covering the adverbs only, just,
exclusively, merely, purely, solely, simply, and the adjectives only, sole, pure, exclusive and …

An argument that complex cardinals are not extra-linguistic but built using standard syntax
and standard principles of semantic composition. In Cardinals, Tania Ionin and Ora …

Inquisitive semantics enriches the standard truth-conditional notion of meaning, in order to
facilitate an integrated semantic analysis of statements and questions. Taking this richer …

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 recent work, has argued, on the basis of both empirical and conceptual considerations,
that relevance (the set of propositions relevant in an utterance context) is closed under …