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- Title
The Computation of Scalar Implicatures: Pragmatic, Lexical or Grammatical?
- Authors
Sauerland, Uli
- Abstract
I provide an overview of four current theories of scalar implicature: the pragmatic (or Gricean), the lexical, a combined pragmatic + lexical, and the grammatical theory. The empirical focus are global and local, but also intermediate implicatures. I argue that the grammatical theory is conceptually less well motivated than even the pragmatic + lexical theory, and that the grammatical theory therefore requires strong empirical support. I then focus on a novel empirical phenomenon - intermediate implicatures - which provides empirical support for the grammatical theory. I conclude that it seems necessary to adopt the grammatical theory.
- Subjects
PRAGMATICS; MATHEMATICAL logic; GENERAL semantics; SEMANTICS; COMPARATIVE grammar
- Publication
Language & Linguistics Compass, 2012, Vol 6, Issue 1, p36
- ISSN
1749-818X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/lnc3.321