Scalar implicatures with discourse referents: a case study on plurality inferences
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چکیده
Abstract This paper explores the idea that scalar implicatures are computed with respect to discourse referents . Given general consensus a proper account of pronominal anaphora in natural language requires separately from truth-conditional meaning, it is naturally expected anaphoric information carry play role computation implicatures, but literature has so far mostly exclusively focused on dimension meaning. offers formal theory couched dynamic semantics, and demonstrates its usefulness through case study plurality inferences plural nouns English.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Linguistics and Philosophy
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['0165-0157', '1573-0549']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10988-023-09381-6