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This paper shows that the use of the Japanese exhaustive particle dake ‘only’ in a Contrastive-marked sentence results in exhaustification over potential literal acts of assertion in the sense of [1], rather than exhaustification over propositions. Also, the data supports the idea that the exceptive meaning denoted by dake contributes to an expressive level of meaning.
This work is supposed by the Research Fellowship of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science for Young Scientists under Grant No. 02162. I am grateful to Chris Potts, Satoshi Tomioka, and the audience at LENS2006 for helpful comments.
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Hara, Y. (2007). Dake-wa: Exhaustifying Assertions. In: Washio, T., Satoh, K., Takeda, H., Inokuchi, A. (eds) New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. JSAI 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4384. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69902-6_19
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