Another argument for embedded scalar implicatures based on oddness in downward entailing environments
In Magri 2009a, I argue that a sentence such as '#Some Italians come from a warm country' sounds odd because it triggers the scalar implicature that not all Italians come from a warm country, which mismatches with the piece of common knowledge that all Italians come from the same country....
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Linguistic Society of America
2011-11-01
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| Series: | Semantics and Pragmatics |
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| Online Access: | http://semprag.org/article/view/1567 |