Sudo, Yasutada;
(2023)
Scalar implicatures with discourse referents: a case study on plurality inferences.
Linguistics and Philosophy
10.1007/s10988-023-09381-6.
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Abstract
This paper explores the idea that scalar implicatures are computed with respect to discourse referents. Given the general consensus that a proper account of pronominal anaphora in natural language requires discourse referents separately from the truth-conditional meaning, it is naturally expected that the anaphoric information that discourse referents carry play a role in the computation of scalar implicatures, but the literature has so far mostly exclusively focused on the truth-conditional dimension of meaning. This paper offers a formal theory of scalar implicatures with discourse referents couched in dynamic semantics, and demonstrates its usefulness through a case study on the plurality inferences of plural nouns in English.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Scalar implicatures with discourse referents: a case study on plurality inferences |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10988-023-09381-6 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10988-023-09381-6 |
| Language: | English |
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| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Linguistics |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10166799 |
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