Economy and embedded exhaustification
Building on previous works which argued that scalar implicatures can be computed in embedded positions, this paper proposes a constraint on exhaustification (an economy condition) which restricts the conditions under which an exhaustivity operator can be licensed. We show that this economy condition...
Main Authors: | Fox, Daniel, Spector, Benjamin |
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Other Authors: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy |
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Springer Science and Business Media LLC
2020
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Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/128857 |
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