Two main points constitute a matter of debate concerning the phenomenon of Scalar Implicatures (SIs): the place of their derivation, which opposes a “recursive”/grammatically driven approach such as Chierchia’s (Chierchia, 2002&2006; Fox, 2003; Landman, 1998; Levinson, 2000) to traditional NeoGricean approaches that view SIs as genuinely post-grammatical/pragmatic processes that are added “glob...

This paper addresses the problem of assessing the veridicity of textual content. Has an event mentioned in the text really occurred? Who is the source of the information? What is the stance of the author of the text? Does the author indicate whether he believes the source? We will survey some of linguistic conventions that indicate the author’s commitment, or the lack thereof, to the propositio...

This paper investigates the question whether implicative verbs should be considered as soft presupposition triggers, i.e., triggers activating optional context repairs. I present results of an experiment in which test subjects were asked to read short dialogues containing either or conversational implicatures and, next, answer questions regarding information communicated on level implicatures, ...

We define grounding in terms of shared public commitments, and link public commitments to other, private, attitudes within a decidable dynamic logic for computing implicatures and predicting an agent’s next dialogue move.

Below I will analyze defensible inferences underlying the interpretation of conversational implicatures and presuppositions; a nonmonotonic onsequence notion will lead from premises including pragmatic generalizations to conclusions about how those sentences are best interpreted..

This research paper addresses the burgeoning discourse surrounding pragmatics instruction, reflecting a broader trend of increased scholarly interest in field with particular focus on explicit teaching within English as Foreign. Within context Greek EFL education, where is introduced at young age, proficient speakers often grapple cross-cultural misunderstandings during communication. study pre...

This study examines the processing of the implicature of “might” (NOT must). The literature on implicatures contains both studies that suggest rapid computation of scalar implicatures, and studies that provide evidence for extra processing costs in generating them. The present study extends existing work by comparing “might” to “must”, and by adapting a paradigm that integrates experimental sen...

The use of an indefinite NP often implies that the NP’s descriptive content is instantiated by more than one individual. But do indefinites conventionally signal this notion of nonuniqueness or does nonuniqueness arise pragmatically, via reasoning about scalar alternatives? In this paper I argue that in Tagalog, indefinite bare NP patients are only able to implicate nonuniqueness if there is a ...

This dissertation proposes a theory of temporal implicatures, and applies it to the study of tense in Mbya Guarani. It is composed of two parts. In the first one, I discuss the analyses of temporal implicatures developed by Musan (1995, 1997) and Magri (2009). Although I argue in favor of Magri's (2009) analysis, I reject two aspects of his proposal: that tense is universally or generically qua...

In this paper, I give an analysis of neg-raising inferences as scalar implicatures. The main motivation for this account as opposed to a presupposition-based approach (Bartsch 1973 and Gajewski 2005, 2007) comes from the differences between presuppositions and neg-raising inferences, noticed by Gajewski (2005, 2007) and Homer (2012). In response to this issue, Gajewski (2007) argues that neg-ra...