@article{Delgado_2020, title={Scalar properties of negative polarity superlatives}, volume={9}, url={https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/borealis/article/view/5358}, DOI={10.7557/1.9.1.5358}, abstractNote={<p>Most theories agree that polarity sensitivity must be related to scalarity one way or another. Superlatives are a good example of this, since their “endpoint nature” allows for them to be in negative contexts with a quantitative interpretation. In this paper, I follow Fauconnier’s (1975a) work in distinguishing two different types of polarity-sensitive superlatives and I show how they manifest in Spanish. I argue that in this language the distinction is formally marked, what allows us to reach different conclusions from those of Fauconnier. On this line, I will defend that both types of polarity-sensitive superlatives have scalar properties of a very different nature. Thus, while for one the quantitative reading is pragmatically-driven, for the other it is semantically-driven.</p>}, number={1}, journal={Borealis – An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics}, author={Delgado, Ulises}, year={2020}, month={May}, pages={1–33} }