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In this paper, we use the logic of partial information to re-examine some early analyses of vague quantifiers in French such as quelques,peu, beaucoup that are found in particular in the work of O. Ducrot [2]. Our approach is based on the paradigm offered by the logical formalization of the sorites paradox. We claim that this paradox offers a general scheme along which the argumentation structure of all vague quantifiers in French may be expressed. We offer a variational principle approximating Grice’s maxims in the case of vague quantification.
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Abdallah, A.N., Lecomte, A. (2005). On Expressing Vague Quantification and Scalar Implicatures in the Logic of Partial Information. In: Blache, P., Stabler, E., Busquets, J., Moot, R. (eds) Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics. LACL 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3492. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11422532_14
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