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#Every boy is a boy who sleeps.

It has been proposed that ''all'' determiners{{emdash}}in every natural language{{emdash}}are conservative.<ref name=Barwise /> The expression ''only'' is not conservative. The following two sentences are not equivalent. But it is, in fact, not common to analyze ''only'' as a [[determiner (linguistics)|determiner]]. Rather, it is standardly treated as a [[focus-sensitive]] [[adverb]].

#Only boys sleep.

#Only boys are boys who sleep.