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Mellon
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Graduate
Research Workshop Program
Stanford
Semantics and Pragmatics Workshop:
THE
CONSTRUCTION OF MEANING
Friday, January 23, 3:30pm in 460-126:
Scalar Implicatures in Context
Angelika Kratzer (UMass Amherst)
The computation of scalar implicatures is a central topic in Gazdar
(1979), and has recently been addressed in Levinson (2000), Chierchia
(forthcoming), and Sauerland (forthcoming). Are scalar implicatures
computed globally, locally, or is there no special mechanism computing
scalar implicatures? I will argue for the third possibility, supporting
Levinson - in a way.
References:
Chierchia, Gennaro. Forthcoming. Scalar Implicatures, Polarity Phenomena,
and the Syntax/Pragmatics Interface. In A. Belletti (ed.) Structures and
Beyond. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Gazdar, Gerald. 1979. Pragmatics. Implicature, Presupposition and Logical
Form. New York: Academic Press.
Levinson, Stephen. 2000. Presumptive Meanings. Cambridge/Mass: The MIT Press.
Sauerland, Uli. Forthcoming. Scalar Implicatures in Complex
Sentences. Linguistics and Philosophy.
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This workshop is sponsored by
the Stanford Humanities Center, and funded by a grant from the Mellon
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