Chapter 87 Scalar implicature as a grammatical phenomenon

• Tác giả: Gennaro Chierchia, Danny Fox, Claudia Maienborn, Paul Portner, Benjamin Spector, Klaus von Heusinger
• Ngôn ngữ: English
• ISBN-13: 978-3110253375
• ISBN: 9783110253382.2297
• Thông tin xuất bản: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2012
• Bộ sưu tập: NCBI
• ID: 172480
• Chủ đề: 1. linguistics; 2. Philosophy of language; 3. Semantics & pragmatics

Tóm tắt

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 pragmatic accounts. We also briefly review additional observations that come from a variety of empirical domains, all incompatible with pragmatic accounts, yet predicted by the grammatical alternative.