Absolute and Relative Scalar Particles in Spanish and Hindi

In (1), even “marks the proposition expressed by the clause or fragment in which it occurs as MORE INFORMATIVE than some other [contextual] proposition” in the same scalar model (Kay 1990:69; emphasis added). The more informative, evenmarked, “text proposition” (tp) pragmatically entails the less informative “context proposition” (cp) within a scalar model like the one schematized in (2) below. Kay’s analysis therefore relativizes the vague Gricean notion of “informativeness” to scalar models.