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Publication details [#42576]

Verstraete, Jean-Christophe. 2005. Scalar quantity implicatures and the interpretation of modality: Problems in the deontic domain. Journal of Pragmatics 37 (9) : 1401–1418.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

deontic logic | implicature | interpretation | modality | scalar particle

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This article argues that deontic modal expressions constitute a specific problem for the mechanism of scalar quantity implicatures, as expressions of permission and obligation apparently differ on two dimensions, thus not forming a perfect scale.