Free Choice and the Theory of Scalar Implicatures

By Danny Fox. 2007

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Subfields: Language and Linguistics, Philosophy

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Universal Implicatures and Free Choice Effects: Experimental Data (2009, background): “…above by presenting various benefits we could gain if we abandon globalism and accept that O may apply much more freely (at least since Cohen 1971; see also Levinson 2000, Recanati 2003, Landman 1998, Chierchia 2004 and Fox 2007 for influential accounts with various theoretical inclinations).”
Constraining the derivation of alternatives (2015, positive): “We believe the second option is correct, in light of arguments made elsewhere concerning free choice disjunction (Fox 2007a), Hurford’s Constraint (Chierchia et al. 2012), modularity (Magri 2009, 2011), and intermediate implicatures (Sauerland 2012).”
Scalar Implicatures in Child Language: Give Children a Chance (2012, background): “…(1972), Levinson (2000), and Chierchia and McConnell Ginet (2000) i.a.; Relevance Theoretic approaches such as Sperber and Wilson (1986/1995) and Carston (1998) i.a.; Grammatical approaches such as Chierchia (2004, 2006; Chierchia, Fox, & Spector, in press), Sauerland (2004), and Fox (2007) i.a.”
Pragmatic reasoning through semantic inference (2016, background): “Accounting for why the specificity implicature is lacking and how the ignorance implicature comes about has become a problem of considerable prominence in recent semantic and pragmatic theory (Fox 2007, Russell 2012, Meyer 2013, Fox 2014).”
Non-monotonicity in NPI licensing (2014, methodology): “On the grammatical approach, there is a covert operator, exh, in grammar that generates scalar implicatures (Krifka 1995, Landman 1998, Fox 2007, Chierchia et al 2011, among others).”
Maximize Presupposition! and local contexts (2011, background): “…principles of multiagent epistemic logic put forth in Stalnaker (2002), and Magri (2009) and Singh (2009, 2010) argue that MP oddness follows from contradictions between the context and the output of an implicature system that computes without access to contextual information (e.g., Fox (2007)).”
Children interpret disjunction as conjunction: Consequences for theories of implicature and child development (2016, positive): “(10) Child-adult difference in implicatures for a sentence like A ∨ B (consequence of (7) when STR is identified with the mechanism proposed in Fox 2007, Chemla 2009a, or Franke 2011): a. Adult: (i) ALTAdult = {A,B,A ∧B} (ii) STR(ALTAdult, A ∨B) entails ¬(A ∧B) b. Child: (i) ALTChild = {A,B} (ii)…”
Conjunctive interpretation of disjunction (2010, methodology): “One major diﬀerence is that Fox ( 2007 ) exhaustiﬁes not only the sentence that is asserted, but also the relevant alternatives.”
The meaning of plural definites: A decision-theoretic approach (2012, background): “I believe that this crucially distinguishes my proposal from the recent claims that covert object-language exhaustivity operators are necessary in the analysis of (some) Gricean implicatures (Landman 2000, Chierchia 2004, Fox 2007, inter alia).”