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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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj.art-d3af2d3497a94a7991754e644bca5c702022-12-21T19:09:12ZengLinguistic Society of AmericaSemantics and Pragmatics1937-89122010-03-013011510.3765/sp.3.5503Embedded Implicatures? Remarks on the debate between globalist and localist theoriesMichela Ippolito0University of TorontoGeurts & 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 <a href="http://semantics-online.org/sp-bib/ippolito10.bib">BibTeX info</a>http://semprag.org/article/view/665implicature |
| spellingShingle | Michela Ippolito Embedded Implicatures? Remarks on the debate between globalist and localist theories Semantics and Pragmatics implicature |
| title | Embedded Implicatures? Remarks on the debate between globalist and localist theories |
| title_full | Embedded Implicatures? Remarks on the debate between globalist and localist theories |
| title_fullStr | Embedded Implicatures? Remarks on the debate between globalist and localist theories |
| title_full_unstemmed | Embedded Implicatures? Remarks on the debate between globalist and localist theories |
| title_short | Embedded Implicatures? Remarks on the debate between globalist and localist theories |
| title_sort | embedded implicatures remarks on the debate between globalist and localist theories |
| topic | implicature |
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