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When maximality is not maximally informative: A compositional analysis of the depth-charge illusion
Date created: 2022-12-05 11:25 AM | Last Updated: 2022-12-16 11:54 PM
Category: Communication
Summary: Building on existing proposals for negative antonyms (von Stechow 1984), intensional comparatives (Meier 2000, 2003) and monotonicity in comparison constructions (Beck & Rullmann 1999, Beck 2013), we develop a compositional analysis of so-called depth-charge sentences like No head injury is too insignificant to be ignored. The alleged illusion derives from the interaction of maximal infor…
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