Alternativas e inferencias escalareslas construcciones del tipo de como mucho

  1. González Rodríguez, Raquel
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Dicenda: Estudios de lengua y literatura españolas

ISSN: 0212-2952,  1988-2556

Any de publicació: 2010

Número: 28

Pàgines: 73-97

Tipus: Article

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Resum

The goal of this paper is to analyze a type of constructions which have not received much attention in the literature: como mucho (�at most�), como poco (�al least�), como máximo (�at most�), por lo menos (�al least�), etc. I will study two aspects of these expressions: their semantic properties and their incompatibility with negative contexts. On the one hand, I will propose that constructions such as como mucho cancel the conversational implicatures associated to the scalar model in question. On the other hand, I will show that these expressions behave as positive polarity items, so that they cannot occur in negative environments and, having in mind the semantic analysis proposed, I will explain their impossibility of being in negative sentences.

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