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McCawley, James D. 1977. Conversational implicature and the lexicon. Grammary 9 : 236–254.
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M. addresses the question of why complex expressions are not freely substitutable for lexical items with which they seem to be synonymous. He argues that the differences in use are not due to differences in semantic structure but rather to the very factthat using a form that 'takes more effort' results in conversational implicatures of some kind.

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