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- Title
Scalar implicatures with discourse referents: a case study on plurality inferences.
- Authors
Sudo, Yasutada
- Abstract
This paper explores the idea that scalar implicatures are computed with respect to discourse referents. Given the general consensus that a proper account of pronominal anaphora in natural language requires discourse referents separately from the truth-conditional meaning, it is naturally expected that the anaphoric information that discourse referents carry play a role in the computation of scalar implicatures, but the literature has so far mostly exclusively focused on the truth-conditional dimension of meaning. This paper offers a formal theory of scalar implicatures with discourse referents couched in dynamic semantics, and demonstrates its usefulness through a case study on the plurality inferences of plural nouns in English.
- Subjects
NATURAL languages; MANUSCRIPTS; ANAPHORA (Linguistics); SEMANTICS; NOUN phrases (Grammar)
- Publication
Linguistics & Philosophy, 2023, Vol 46, Issue 5, p1161
- ISSN
0165-0157
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10988-023-09381-6