... marked as true, since they are entailed. Horn called this phenomenon scalar predleation, and Gazdar {Gazdar, 1979) later used a variation as the basis for a phenomenon he termed sea/at quantity ... deny a queried member {llawaii). The affirmati,~n of an unqueried ah,'rnate value generally conveys the falsity or R's ignorance of the queried value. SA partial ord~-rin 9 may be ... negating the lowest deniable scalar. In such a denial a speaker may implicate his affirmation or ignorance of lower scalars. So, in exchanges like { 9a) , a value higher than a queried value...