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Publication details [#8670]

Schwarz, David S. 1976. Notes from the pragmatic wastebasket: On a Gricean explanation of the preferred interpretation of negative sentences. Pragmatics Microfiche 2 (1) : E4–E4.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

factivity | negation | presupposition

Person as a subject

Wilson, D.

Annotation

S. argues that D. Wilson's pragmatic explanation of the preferred presuppositional interpretation of negative factive sentences is inadequate in certain respects. An alternative pragmatic explanation is offered.

Reprints

Heny, Frank and Helmut S. Schnelle. 1979. In Heny, Frank and Helmut S. Schnelle, eds. Syntax and semantics 10: Selections from the third Groningen round table. Academic Press. pp. 241–253.