Investigating the distribution of <em>some</em> (but not <em>all</em>) implicatures using corpora and web-based methods

A prevalent, but to date untested, assumption about lexicalized scalar implicatures such as those from <em>some</em> to <em>not all</em>, is that they fall into the class of GCIs and as such, constitute a homogeneous class of highly regularized and context-independent implica...

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Main Author: Judith Degen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Linguistic Society of America 2015-05-01
Series:Semantics and Pragmatics
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Online Access:http://semprag.org/article/view/3022