Three versus At Least Three

• 영문명: Three versus At Least Three
• 발행기관: 한국영미어문학회
• 저자명: Jae-gyun Song
• 간행물 정보: 『영미어문학』영미어문학(TAEGU REVIEW) 제77호, 165~184쪽, 전체 20쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2005.12.01

영문 초록

The purpose of this paper is to provide a proper account for the lack of the exactly-reading of, say, at least three, though the bare numeral three is typically understood as "exactly three". My analysis is based on the No Redundancy Principle (NPR), according to which every meaningful expression in a sentence or a text must be non-redundant: Either it must make a contribution to the truth-conditional interpretation, or otherwise its occurrence must be pragmatically licensed. Assuming that the NPR is a rule that regulates all the interpretation processes, I show that the principle provides a natural solution to the puzzle raised by at least.

목차

Ⅰ. Introduction

Ⅱ. Krifka (1999) and Umbach (2005)

Ⅲ. Kadmon (2001) and Schulz and van Rooij (2005)

Ⅳ. Clausal Implicature Analysis

Ⅴ. Proposal

Ⅵ. Conclusions

References

Abstract