Non-monotonic NPI-Licensing, definite descriptions, and grammaticalized implicatures

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A downward-entailing context has the property that the replacement of the predicate in the context by a stronger predicate preserves truth. So, for instance, presuppositions aside, the context after “every” in (1) where the NPI “ever” appears is downward entailing.

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