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Publication details [#2941]
Edmondson, J.A. 1981. Affectivity and gradient scope. Papers from the Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society 17 : 38–44.
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Article in journal
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English
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E. shows that there is a graded hierarchy governing negative-polarity items crosslinguistically, and that this hierarchy is the product of at least three factors: scalar implicature, denotation, and scope preference.