Acknowledgements

Chapter 1

1.1. Introduction

1.2. G.Lakoff’s analysis

1.3. Objections to Lakoff’s analysis

1.4. An analysis of adverbials of duration

1.5. Syntactic considerations

1.5.1. “Any”

1.5.2. “If not”

1.5.3. Sentence negation

1.5.4. Preposing

1.6. Conclusions

Chapter 2

2.1. Introduction

2.2. Relations of inclusion

2.2.1. Terminology

2.2.2. “At least”

2.2.3. “Only ”

2.2.4. “But”

2.2.5. “Much less”

2.3. Conclusions

Chapter 3

3.1. Introduction

3.2. Negative idioms

3.3. Bounded quantification

3.4. Some rules of implication

3.5. “Not many”

3.6. Carden’s analysis

3.7. Heny’s proposal

3.8. NEG-raising

3.9. Objections to NEG-raising

3.10. Believe and bounded quantification

3.11. Conclusions

Appendix

Bibliography

Index