Neg-quant scope

From a rodeo queen competitor interviewed on KQED’s “California Report”, October 23: (1) It’s sort of depressing when you haven’t won many times, again, again. The intended reading of “you haven’t won many times” is not one in which negation has scope over the quantifier many — (1a) ‘it’s not the case that you have … Continue reading Neg-quant scope