Embedded Implicatures? Remarks on the debate between globalist and localist theories
Geurts & Pouscoulous (2009) present experimental evidence that embedded implicatures are not systematically available and conclude that localist theories of implicatures cannot be maintained. I argue that this conclusion can be strengthened by showing that their findings cannot be reconciled wit...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Linguistic Society of America
2010-03-01
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| Series: | Semantics and Pragmatics |
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| Online Access: | http://semprag.org/article/view/665 |
| Summary: | Geurts & Pouscoulous (2009) present experimental evidence that embedded implicatures are not systematically available and conclude that localist theories of implicatures cannot be maintained. I argue that this conclusion can be strengthened by showing that their findings cannot be reconciled with a localist theory even when the latter is supplemented with a formal way to predict when an embedded implicature will be preferred, as suggested in Chierchia, Fox & Spector (2008).
doi:10.3765/sp.3.5
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| ISSN: | 1937-8912 |