This paper concentrates on giving precise content to the general wisdom on the scalar
presupposition of even, according to which the prejacent of even, p, is stronger than its …

This paper describes and examines novel data which is problematic for the popular view
that the scale in the scalar presupposition of even is based on comparative (un) likelihood or …

An old observation about the focus sensitive particles only and even is that they are in some
sense scalar antonyms. We examine three schematic proposals raised in the literature to …

A popular view of the semantics of even takes it to presuppose that its prejacent, p, is less
likely than all its contextually relevant focus alternatives, q. In this paper I point out three …

Exclusive particles (eg just) express exclusivity inferences by negating focus alternatives to
the sentence they modify. Grosz (2012) observes that they can sometimes give rise to what …

This paper proposes an analysis of the semantics of even that is consistent with the
assumptions about the syntax and semantics of negation in Collins and Postal (Classical …

This paper addresses the question of whether the preverbal even (VP-even) embedded in a
nonfinite clause can take wide scope (eg, Bill refused to even drink WATER). The paper …

There have been ongoing debates about the semantics of Mandarin particle dou, which,
among its various readings, has a distributive reading and a scalar reading. In the paper, we …

The goal of this paper is to account for scalarity effects typically arising in the presence of
French propre 'own'. I argue for the presence of an implicit, focus-sensitive operator E akin to …

Sentences involving the scalar particle even result in positive or negative inferences when
combined with gradable predicates, which is unexpected assuming the classic (un) …