Journal of Logic, Language and Information 13 (4):491-519 (2004)
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In terms of Groenendijk and Stokhofs (1984) formalization of exhaustive interpretation, many conversational implicatures can be accounted for. In this paper we justify and generalize this approach. Our justification proceeds by relating their account via Halpern and Moses (1984) non-monotonic theory of only knowing to the Gricean maxims of Quality and the first sub-maxim of Quantity. The approach of Groenendijk and Stokhof (1984) is generalized such that it can also account for implicatures that are triggered in subclauses not entailed by the whole complex sentence.
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Keywords | Circumscription conversational implicatures exhaustive interpretation non-monotonic reasoning pragmatics |
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DOI | 10.1007/s10849-004-2118-6 |
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