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Interpretations of Numerals

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Yoon-kyoung Joh

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This paper examines advantages and disadvantages of various previous accounts on the interpretations of numerals and makes a new proposal. Taking entailment patterns and various other arguments into account, this paper is primarily in line with the neo-Gricean approach. However, this paper departs from the neo-Gricean approach in the respect that the “at most” reading must be considered as part of the meanings of numerals. The “at most” construal of numerals has a peculiar status as a reading of a numeral. This paper explains why the “at most” reading is, in its status, not equivalent to the “at least” reading and the “exactly” reading of the numeral by claiming that, by the means of a semantic operator, the “at most” reading is derived from a scalar implicature which has been drawn at the pragmatic level. This research argues for the view that the semantic level and the pragmatic level interacts with each other constantly, allowing that the pragmatic level can also feed the semantic level.



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I. Introduction
 II. Previous Studies
 III. Proposal
 IV. Conclusion
 Works Cited
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  • Yoon-kyoung Joh Mokpo National Universiry

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