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Structurally defined alternatives and lexicalizations of XOR

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In his recent paper on the symmetry problem Roni Katzir argues that the only relevant factor for the calculation of any Quantity implicature is syntactic structure. I first refute Katzir’s thesis with three examples that show that structural complexity is irrelevant to the calculation of some Quantity implicatures. I then argue that it is inadvisable to assume—as Katzir and others do—that exactly one factor is relevant to the calculation of any Quantity implicature.

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Swanson, E. Structurally defined alternatives and lexicalizations of XOR. Linguist and Philos 33, 31–36 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10988-010-9074-1

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