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Quantity implicatures: a tendentious survey
Published on Sep 12, 20114400 Views
The paradigm example of a quantity implicature is the inference from “some” to “not all”, as in: Some bankers are crooks ~> Not all bankers are crooks. In recent years, quantity implicatures hav
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Quantity implicatures00:00
A seemingly simple issue00:20
Upper-bounded construals aren't mandatory04:38
Enter pragmatics (Mill 1865)07:37
Enter pragmatic theory: Conversational implicatures (Grice 1975) (1)09:29
Enter pragmatic theory: Conversational implicatures (Grice 1975) (2)12:33
Conversational implicatures are abductive inferences16:00
Scalar implicatures (Horn 1972)19:50
Questions, questions, ...24:25
The generative view (Gazdar 1979, Soames 1982)25:42
The generative view: an example27:49
The generative view: some issues29:22
Free choice inferences32:46
What's the problem?34:26
Free choice and quantity implicature35:26
Reasoning about beliefs38:36
Free choice explained40:10
Interim summary42:35
The variety of quantity implicature43:41
And now for something completely different48:31
Three views on truth-conditional narrowing52:44
And now for something completely diff erent (again)52:55
Typicality e ffects with scalars54:30
Conclusion56:43
Thank you for giving me some of your time58:02