Focus, Evaluativity, and Antonymy

This book uncovers properties of focus association with ''only'' by examining the interaction between the particle and bare (or “evaluative”) gradable terms. Its empirical building blocks are paradigms involving upward-scalar terms like ''few'' and ''rarely'', and their downward-scalar antonyms ''many'' and ''frequently'', an area that has not been studied previously in the literature. The empiric...