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Publication details [#39459]

Sauerland, Uli. 2004. Scalar Implicatures in Complex Sentences. Linguistics and Philosophy 27 (3) : 367–391.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

disjunction | implicature | scalarity | sentence

Journal WWW

www.kluweronline.com/

Annotation

This paper develops a Gricean explanation for the computation of scalar implicatures in cases where one scalar term is in the scope of another. A novel analysis is proposed for exceptional cases involving disjunction.