Richard Breheny, University College, London richardb@ling.ucl.ac.uk
The Hindi particle hi produces the meaning of `only'. Treating it as the morphological realization of focus and then using an analysis like Rooth (1992) gives us the correct semantics. In association with negation, however, hi is interpreted like `even'. This reading is not predicted by an account such as Rooth's. Breheny uses `ordered concepts' to derive the unexpected `even' reading from the semantics of hi and negation (a version of this paper was also presented at the 9th Student Conference in Linguistics, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, May 1997).