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According to the Gricean approach to scalar implicatures (SIs for short), SIs are pragmatic inferences that result from a reasoning about the speaker’s communicative intentions. In recent years, an alternative view of SIs (let us call it the ‘grammatical view’ of SIs) has been put forward, according to which they result from the optional presence of a covert so-called exhaustivity operator in the logical form of the relevant sentences and are thus reducible to standard semantic entailment (see Chierchia 2006, Fox 2007, Chierchia, Fox, and Spector in press, a.o, building on earlier grammatical approaches by, e.g., Landman 1998, Chierchia 2004).
Many thanks to Danny Fox, Bart Geurts and Philippe Schlenker as well as to Thomas Andrillon, Vincent Berthet, Isabelle Brunet, Paul Égré, Anne-Caroline Fievet, Greg Kobele and Inga Vendelin. This work was supported by grants from the European Science Foundation (Euriy: “Presupposition: A Formal Pragmatic Approach”) and from the European Research Council under the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007–2013) / ERC grant agreement 229441-CCC.
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Chemla, E., Spector, B. (2010). Experimental Detection of Embedded Implicatures . In: Aloni, M., Bastiaanse, H., de Jager, T., Schulz, K. (eds) Logic, Language and Meaning. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6042. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14287-1_6
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