Abstract
I offer an integrated theory of the meaning of only in which the prejacent, while not presupposed, is both entailed and backgrounded, hence tends to project (following a general proposal about projection due to Simons et al. 2010). Moreover, I argue, contra Beaver & Brady (2008), that only is not conventionally associated with focus, the focus effects arising instead pragmatically. But I do adopt aspects of their semantics for only, including the presupposition of a pre-order over the elements of its domain.
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Roberts, C., (2010) “only: A Case Study In Projective Meaning”, Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication 1(2010). doi: https://doi.org/10.4148/biyclc.v6i0.1581
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