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Generalizing Monotonicity Inferences to Opposition Inferences

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Logic, Language and Meaning

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This paper generalizes the notion of monotonicities to opposition properties (OPs). Some propositions regarding the OPs of determiners will be proposed and proved. We will also define the notion of OP-chain and deduce a condition that enables us to determine the OPs of an iterated quantifier in its predicates based on the OPs of its constituent determiners.

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  1. The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

    Ka-Fat Chow

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  1. ILLC, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098 XH, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Maria Aloni , Floris Roelofsen , Galit W. Sassoon , Katrin Schulz  & Matthijs Westera , , ,  & 

  2. ACLC, University of Amsterdam, Spuistraat 210, 1012 VT, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Vadim Kimmelman

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Chow, KF. (2012). Generalizing Monotonicity Inferences to Opposition Inferences. In: Aloni, M., Kimmelman, V., Roelofsen, F., Sassoon, G.W., Schulz, K., Westera, M. (eds) Logic, Language and Meaning. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7218. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31482-7_29

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