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BL
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997081
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b751451
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| Main Entry
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Bultinck, Bert.
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Numerous meanings : : the meaning of English cardinals and the legacy of Paul Grice /\ Bert Bultinck.
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1st ed.
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| Publication Statement
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Amsterdam ;Boston :: Elsevier,, 2005.
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| Series Statement
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Current research in the semantics/pragmatics interface,; v. 15
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1 online resource (xiii, 327 pages).
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| ISBN
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0080445578
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: 0080456790
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: 9780080445571
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: 9780080456799
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0080445578
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-320) and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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| Abstract
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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 standard semantic description of numerals. In this book, Bultinck writes the history of this implicature-driven approach and demonstrates that it suffers from methodological insecurity and postulates highly non-conventional meanings of numerals as their "literal meaning", while it confuses the level of.
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Grice, H. P., (H. Paul)
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Grice, H. P., (H. Paul)
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Cardinal numbers.
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English language-- Numerals.
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English language-- Semantics.
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Cardinal numbers.
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English language-- Numerals.
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English language-- Semantics.
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LANGUAGE ARTS DISCIPLINES-- Linguistics-- Semantics.
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| Dewey Classification
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420/.143
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PE1246.B85 2005eb
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