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Numerous Meanings : the Meaning of English Cardinals and the Legacy of Paul Grice.

Outlandish as it may seem to the uninitiated, the meaning of English cardinal numbers has been the object of many heated and fascinating debates. Notwithstanding the numerous important objections that have been formulated in the last three decades, the (neo- )Gricean, scalar account is still the sta...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bultinck, Bert
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Burlington : Emerald Group Pub., 2005.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Conventions; Introduction; The Gricean theory of implicatures; Three decades of Gricean numerals; General corpus analysis of the forms and functions of English cardinals; 'At least n', 'exactly n', 'at most n' and 'absolute value' readings; Conclusion; References; Index.