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Kuppevelt, Jan van. 1996. Inferring from topics: Scalar implicatures as topic-dependent inferences. Linguistics and Philosophy 19 (4) : 393–443.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational implicature | implicature | inference | scalarity | topic

Place, Publisher

Kluwer

ISBN

0165-0157

Journal WWW

www.kluweronline.com/

Annotation

This paper examines specific inferential phenomena arising from Grice's first submaxim of quantity, that is generalized conversational implicatures, and in particular the subclass of scalar implicatures.