Sang-Ho So. 2000. The Interpretation of `Even-Sentences.` Studies in Modern Grammar 20, 179-197. The purpose of this article is to analyze the meaning of `even`, showing that Lycan`s analysis and other quantifier accounts are problematic. Most writers on `even` agree that the word makes some contribution to the meaning of sentences in which it figures. The word `even` does not make a truth-conditional difference; it makes a difference only in conventional implicature. The felicity of an `even`-sentence S requires that S` be more surprising than most true neighbors. `Even` is a scalar term, since unexpectedness comes in degrees. In particular, `even` functions neither as a universal quantifier, nor as a quantifier like most or many. The only quantified statement that `Even A is F` implies is the existential claim "There is an x (namely, A) that is F." `Even` implies some type of unexpectedness, surprise, or unlikelihood. Moreover, this implication is part of the meaning of `even`.

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