Chapter 87 Scalar implicature as a grammatical phenomenon

• Main Author: Chierchia, Gennaro (auth)
• Other Authors: Fox, Danny (auth), Spector, Benjamin (auth), Maienborn, Claudia (Editor), von Heusinger, Klaus (Editor), Portner, Paul (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2012
• Subjects: linguistics; Philosophy of language; Semantics & pragmatics; Semantics; Linguistic; Theories; Generative and Cognitive Linguistics
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

This article develops various arguments for the view that scalar implicatures should be de-rived within grammar and not by a theory of language use (pragmatics). We focus primarily on arguments that scalar implicatures can be computed in embedded positions, a conclusion incompatible with existing pr...