Embedded implicatures?!?

Over the last decade, various proposals have been made for supplanting the classical Gricean theory of scalar implicature with conventionalist (i.e. lexicalist or syntax-based) treatments. In contradistinction to the classical view, conventionalist theories predict that scalar inferences occur syste...

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Main Authors: Bart Geurts, Nausicaa Pouscoulous
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Linguistic Society of America 2009-07-01
Series:Semantics and Pragmatics
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Online Access:http://semprag.org/article/view/99