Exhaustivity
A Semantic Account of 'Quantity' Implicatures
978-3-639-14714-8
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240
2009-05-20
79,00 €
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"Exhaustivity: A Semantic Account of 'Quantity'
Implicatures" argues against the Grice/Horn
approach to scalar and clausal implicatures, and
offers an alternative theory of these implicatures,
which derives them based on a semantic operation of
exhaustivization. The exhaustivity operator makes
reference to the structure of the semantic domain it
operates on. It requires the domain to have the
structure of a join semilattice. Exhaustivity may
operate on the partial order in the domain of
singular and plural objects, or the context may
provide other structured domains of interpretation,
and hence other orders and maximality operations
(orders of numbers, ranks, properties, relations
etc.). The present theory also provides a principled
account of the dependence of scalar implicatures on
focal structure, and of scalar implicatures in
logically complex sentences ('implicature
projection').
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