We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
Generalized Free Choice and Missing Alternatives.
- Authors
MEYER, MARIE-CHRISTINE
- Abstract
In this article I propose that there are unembedded disjunctions which receive a conjunctive interpretation via recursive implicature computation. This is unexpected: since disjunction competes with conjunction, implicature computation will usually result in the negation of the conjunctive alternative. I argue that certain disjunctions do not compete with a conjunctive alternative, due to a constraint on the assertability of scalar alternatives. As a result, recursive implicature computation can strengthen matrix or into and in these cases. I discuss the pragmatic factors driving recursive implicature computation, as well as the scope of the proposed assertability condition on alternatives.
- Subjects
FREEDOM of employment; SUBJUNCTIVE mood; SCALAR field theory; ALGEBRAIC field theory; DISCOURSE markers
- Publication
Journal of Semantics, 2016, Vol 33, Issue 4, p703
- ISSN
0167-5133
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/jos/ffv010