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Summative Existentials

Published in Linguistic Inquiry • Jul 6, 2018
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Authors:
Itamar Francez

Abstract

Under certain conditions, existential sentences have readings that are not predicted and cannot be modeled, given common assumptions about the construction. For example, the sentence There could be three outcomes to this election is normally taken to express that three things could be the outcome of...

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