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Phantom readings: the case of modified numerals

Phantom readings: the case of modified numerals

We investigate the mechanisms proposed in formal semantics to account for the ambiguity generated by simple numerical expressions (e.g., ‘three students’). We explain how these mechanisms, when applied to more complex numerical expressions such as ‘between n and m’ (e.g., ‘between three and five students’), predict a surprising ambiguity between …