Upper-Bounded Scalars and Argumentation-in-Language Theory
Scalar implicatures, such as the ‘not all’-implicature attached to “some”, have been at the center of debates on the semantics-pragmatics interface ever since Horn (1972). The question is whether ‘not all’ is part of the semantics of “some” or rather pragmatically inferred in context. The latter the...
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Presses Universitaires du Midi
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| Series: | Anglophonia |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/anglophonia/2580 |