Modified Numerals Article Swipe
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· 2020
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· DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118788516.sem120
Modified numerals are expressions such as more than three , fewer than three , at least three , at most three , up to ten , between three and ten , approximately ten , about ten , exactly ten , and so forth. At first sight, their semantic contribution seems pretty easy to describe. However, this impression is deceptive. Modified numerals raise very serious challenges for formal semantics and pragmatics, many of which have yet to be addressed in a fully satisfactory way. These challenges relate to two broad questions: first, what is the linguistically encoded meaning of modified numerals? Second, how should we divide the work between compositional semantics and pragmatics in order to account for all the inferences they give rise to? These are the two questions addressed in this chapter, focusing on a few striking puzzles, mostly in the domain of comparative and superlative modified numerals. These puzzles involve the interactions of modified numerals with plural semantics, modality, quantity implicatures, and ignorance inferences.
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