Setting up Exhausted Values

This paper argues that exhaustification is empirically and theoretically important as a tool in the semantic description of various constructions in natural language. Discussion focuses on the comparative construction, and presents a view of exhaustification as a ‘control element’ that influences the interpretation of a more basic element: the existential quantifier.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1999
• Where: ESSLLI
• Authors: Alastair Butler
• Keywords: Automated Reasoning, ESSLLI 1999, Semantic Description, Various Constructions, ‘control Element