@proceedings {3193706,
	title = {Minimal sufficiency, plural predication, and scalarity},
	volume = {29},
	year = {Forthcoming},
	abstract = {Minimal sufficiency readings of exclusive modifiers (Just the thought of food makes\&nbsp;me hungry) have resisted a comprehensive semantic analysis that accurately predicts their distribution.<br>In this paper we show that the distribution of minimal sufficiency readings is directly\&nbsp;correlated with the interpretation of plural arguments and that the distributional facts reflect the\&nbsp;connection between plural predication and scalarity: sufficiency readings are licensed precisely\&nbsp;in contexts where ordering relations over alternatives are reversed. We develop a semantics for\&nbsp;exclusives that is capable of generating either exclusive or sufficiency readings depending on\&nbsp;the direction of scalarity.},
	author = {Bar-Asher Siegal Elitzur A. and Fagen Lucas}
}
