Conversational Implicature in Montague Grammar

Conversational implicature: interacting with grammar

I seek to mediate this debate. I describe a general framework for interactional models of implicature and then assess the major arguments for grammar-driven approaches. My central findings are that many of these arguments are conceptually or theoretically problematic, and that the valid ones do not compromise the Gricean picture. Stepping back, I find that the two sides in this debate are not r...

Compositionality in Montague Grammar

Though not the first to introduce the notion, Montague has been a key figure in promoting the principle of compositionality. Montague himself proposed both an abstract program and a grammar for a fragment of English. In his fragment he makes particular choices for the manipulation of meanings that have later been modified. This work has sparked off numerous important developments. For example, ...

Dynamic Montague Grammar ∗

Incremental Montague Grammar

Situated Inference versus Conversational Implicature

As Grice defined it, a speaker conversationally implicates that p only if the speaker expects the hearer to recognize that the speaker thinks that p. This paper argues that in the sorts of cases that Grice took as paradigmatic examples of conversational implicature there is in fact no need for the hearer to consider what the speaker might thus have in mind. Instead, the hearer might simply make...