Skip to main content
Log in

Even

  • Published:
Linguistics and Philosophy Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

References

  • Akmajian, Adrian: 1984, ‘Sentence Types and the Form-function Fit’,Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 2(1) 1–23.

    Google Scholar 

  • Anderson, Stephen R.: 1972, ‘How to Get Even’,Language 48(4) 893–906.

    Google Scholar 

  • Anscombre, Jean-Claude and Oswald Ducrot: 1983,L'argumentation dans la langue, Mardaga, Bruxelles.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bresnan, Joan: 1975, ‘Comparative Deletion and Constraints on Transformations’,Linguistic Analysis 1(1) 25–74.

    Google Scholar 

  • Brugman, Claudia: 1986, ‘Sisterhood is More Powerful than You Thought: Scopal Adverb Placement and Illocutionary Force’,Papers from the 222nd Annual Meeting, Chicago Linguistic Society.

  • Cresswell, M. J.: 1976, ‘The Semantics of Degree’, in B. Partee (ed.),Montague Grammar, Academic Press, New York.

    Google Scholar 

  • Ducrot, Oswald: 1973,La preuve et la dire. Marne, Paris. [Pagination refers to publication of a revised version of the chapters of this work dealing with scales: Les échelles argumentatives. Minuit, Paris, 1980.]

    Google Scholar 

  • Fauconnier, Gilles: 1975a, ‘Pragmatic Scales and Logical Structure’,Linguistic Inquiry 6, 353.

    Google Scholar 

  • Fauconnier, Gilles: 1975b, ‘Polarity and the Scale Principle’,Papers from the 11th Annual Meeting, Chicago Linguistic Society.

  • Fauconnier, Gilles: 1976,Etude de certains aspects logiques et grammaticaux de la quantification et de l'anaphore en français et en anglais. Champion, Paris.

    Google Scholar 

  • Fauconnier, Gilles: 1985,Mental Spaces. MIT Press, Cambridge Mass.

    Google Scholar 

  • Fillmore, Charles J.: 1965, ‘Entailment Rules in a Semantic Theory’, POLA Report 10. Columbus: Ohio State University.

    Google Scholar 

  • Fillmore, Charles J.: 1983, ‘Syntactic Intrusions and the Notion of Grammatical Construction’,Proceedings of the 11th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistic Society.

  • Fillmore, Charles J.: 1985, ‘Frames and the Semantics of Understanding’,Quaderni di Semantica VI(2) 222–254.

    Google Scholar 

  • Fillmore, Charles J.: 1987, ‘Varieties of Conditional Sentences’, MS, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley.

    Google Scholar 

  • Fillmore, Charles J. and Paul Kay: 1987, The Goals of Construction Grammar, Technical Report No. 50. Berkeley: UCB Cognitive Science Program.

    Google Scholar 

  • Fillmore, Charles J., Paul Kay and M. Catherine O'Connor: 1988, ‘Regularity and Idiomaticity in Grammatical Constructions: The Case of Let Alone’,Language 64, 501–538.

    Google Scholar 

  • Fraser, Bruce: 1970, ‘An Analysis of Even in English’, in C. Fillmore and D. T. Langendoen, (eds.)Studies in Linguistic Semantics, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, New York, pp. 141–80.

    Google Scholar 

  • Gazdar, Gerald, Geoffrey K. Pullum and Ivan A. Sag: 1982, ‘Auxiliaries and Related Phenomena in a Restrictive Theory of Grammar’,Language 58, 591–638.

    Google Scholar 

  • Green, Georgia M.: 1985, ‘The Description of Inversions in Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar’,Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistic Society. Berkeley.

  • Heringer, J. T.: 1973, ‘Even and Negative Polarity’, unpublished paper delivered Summer LSA Meetings.

  • Horn, Larry: 1969, ‘A Presuppositional Approach toOnly andEven’, Papers from the 5th Regional Meeting, Chicago Linguistic Society, pp. 98–107.

  • Horn, Larry: 1971, ‘Negative Transportation: Unsafe at Any Speed?’,Papers from the 7th Regional Meeting, Chicago Linguistics Society, pp. 120–133.

  • Horn, Larry: 1985, ‘Metalinguistic Negation and Pragmatic Ambiguity’,Language 61, 121–174.

    Google Scholar 

  • Jackendoff, Ray: 1983,Semantics and Cognition. MIT, Cambridge, Mass.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kaplan, David: 1977, ‘Dthat’, in Peter A. French et al. (eds.),Complementary Perspectives in the Philosophy of Language, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

    Google Scholar 

  • Karttunen, Lauri and Stanley Peters: 1975, ‘Conventional Implicature and Montague Grammar’,Proceedings of the 1st Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, pp. 266–278.

  • Karttunen, Lauri and Stanley Peters: 1979, ‘Conventional Implicature’, in Oh and Dineen (eds.),Syntax and Semantics 11: Presupposition, Academic, New York.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kay, Paul: 1984, ‘Linguistic Competence and Folk Theories of Language: Two English Hedges’,Proceedings of the 9th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistic Society, pp. 128–137.

  • Kay, Paul: 1986, ‘Pragmatic Informativeness and Scalar Semantics’, Jacob Marshak Seminar Lecture. UCLA.

  • Kuroda, Sige-Yuki: 1965, ‘Generative Grammatical Studies in the Japanese Language’, MIT, Doctoral dissertation.

  • Kuroda, Sige-Yuki: 1969, ‘Attachment Transformations, in D. Reidel and S. Schane (eds.), Modern Studies in English, pp. 331–351, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ.

    Google Scholar 

  • Ladusaw, William: 1979,Polarity as Inherent Scope Relations, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Texas, Austin.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lakoff, George: 1971, ‘Performative Antinomies’, in C. J. Fillmore and D. T. Langendoen, (eds.),Studies in Linguistic Semantics, Holt, New York.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lkoff, George: 1987,Women, Fire and Dangerous Things, (especially Case Study #3, There-constructions) University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lambrecht, Knud: 1986a,Topic, Focus and the Grammar of Spoken French. Doctoral dissertation, UC Berkeley.

  • Lambrecht, Knud: 1986b, ‘Formulaicity, Frame Semantics, and Pragmatics in German Binomial Expressions’,Language 60, 753–798.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lambrecht, Knud: 1986c, ‘Pragmatically Motivated Syntax: Presentational Cleft Constructions in Spoken French’,Papers from the 22nd Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society.

  • Lambrecht, Knud: forthcoming, ‘Presentational Cleft Constructions in Spoken French’, in John Haiman and Sandra A. Thompson (eds.),Clause Combining in Grammar and Discourse, Benjamins, Amsterdam.

  • Lewis, David: 1979, ‘Scorekeeping in a Language Game’, in R. Bauerle, U. Egli and A. von Stechow (eds.),Semantics from Different Points of View, Springer-Verlag, Berlin.

    Google Scholar 

  • McCawley, James: 1969, ‘Why You Can't not Say no Sentences Like this One’, MS, University of Chicago.

  • McCawley, James: 1987, ‘The Focus and Scope ofOnly’, MS, University of Chicago.

  • Putnam, Hilary: 1981,Reason, Truth, and History, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

    Google Scholar 

  • Sweetser, Eve Eliot: 1984, ‘Semantic Structure and Semantic Change’, Ph.D. Dissertation, Berkeley.

  • Sperber, Dan and Deidre Wilson: 1986, Relevance: Communication and Cognition. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.

    Google Scholar 

  • Stalnaker, Robert: 1973, ‘Pressuppositions’,Journal of Philosophical Logic 2, 447–457.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

Authors

Additional information

This paper represents the development and application of ideas originating in collaborative work with Charles Fillmore and Mary Catherine O'Connor. Amy Dahlstrom, Tom Larsen and Barry Schein provided much useful advice at that time.

Part or all of the content of the paper has benefitted from discussion with a large number of people, including Barbara Abbott, Daniel Andler, Dominique Bassano, George Bergman, Dwight Bolinger, Claudia Brugman, Regina Bustamante, Christian Champaud, David Dowty, Oswald Ducrot, Michele Emanatian, Gilles Fauconnier, Hana Filip, Charles Fillmore, Laurence Horn, Edward Keenan, George Lakoff, Knud Lambrecht, John Lawler, Kiki Nikiforidou, Mary Catherine O'Connor, Barbara Partee, François Recanati, Paul Schachter, Christophe Schwartze, Emmanuel Schegloff, Dan Sperber, Anna Szabolcsi, Leonard Talmy, James Watters, Robert Wilensky, Karl Zimmer, and Richard Zuber. My apologies to any whose names I have inadvertently omitted.

I have certainly received more good advice than I was able or willing to take.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Kay, P. Even. Linguist Philos 13, 59–111 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00630517

Download citation

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00630517

Keywords

Navigation