Publications

Publication details [#1896]

Burton-Roberts, Noel. 1984. Modality and implicature. Linguistics and Philosophy 7 : 181–206.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

implication | implicature | modality

Person as a subject

Gazdar, G. | Horn, L.R.

Journal WWW

www.kluweronline.com/

Annotation

A critique of the Horn-Gazdar proposal to treat the implication from 'possible p' to 'possible not p' as a pragmatic (non-truth-conditional) phenomenon, in terms of a generalized scalar quantity implicature.