Natural Language Semantics 23 (4):249-270 (2015)
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Inferences that result from exhaustification of a sentence S depend on the set of alternatives to S. In this paper, we present some inference patterns that are problematic for previous theories of alternatives and propose some structural constraints on the derivation of formal alternatives which derive the observations.
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| Keywords | Alternatives Exhaustification Implicature Focus Symmetry |
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| DOI | 10.1007/s11050-015-9115-y |
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