Conservativity
Summary
In formal semantics conservativity is a proposed linguistic universal which states that any determiner must obey the equivalence . For instance, the English determiner "every" can be seen to be conservative by the equivalence of the following two sentences, schematized in generalized quantifier notation to the right.
Further reading
- Wikipedia, page 68498620, revision 1230062708, Conservativity. adopted
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| Kind | concept |
| Writing | W1 stated |
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| Changed | 4 November 2026 |
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- edge defines in: at least one definition (0 of 1)
- edge instance_of in: at least two examples (0 of 2)
- edge not_instance_of in: at least one non-example (0 of 1)
- edge specializes both: the more general notions and the special cases (0 of 1)
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