Chapter 87 Scalar implicature as a grammatical phenomenon
This article develops various arguments for the view that scalar implicatures should be de-rived within grammar and not by a theory of language use (pragmatics). We focus primarily on arguments that scalar implicatures can be computed in embedded positions, a conclusion incompatible with existing pr...
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Berlin/Boston
De Gruyter
2012
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