A theory of individual-level predicates based on blind mandatory scalar implicatures

By Giorgio Magri. 2009

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Language and Linguistics, Philosophy

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Two methods to find truth-value gaps and their application to the projection problem of homogeneity (2015, methodology): “Without further assumptions, Magri’s theory does not predict any gap in our sense, as it is only concerned with the truth conditions of sentences. However, in another work, Magri (2009) defends the idea that if a sentence is literally true but false when enriched with its scalar implicatures, then a”
Constraining the derivation of alternatives (2015, unknown): “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).”
On the characterization of alternatives (2011, background): “Note also that using (38) in such a context is usually odd (see Magri, 2009 and Singh, 2010 for discussion).”
Children interpret disjunction as conjunction: Consequences for theories of implicature and child development (2016, unknown): “12We put aside for now arguments that sentences are always exhaustified (Magri 2009, Magri 2011).”
Another argument for embedded scalar implicatures based on oddness in downward entailing environments (2011, background): “In Magri 2009a, I argued that this scalar implicature is the driving force of the oddness of (1a)-(3a).”
Maximize Presupposition! and local contexts (2011, background): “All formal statements of MP that I am aware of characterize it is a global constraint, operative at the root (e.g., Sauerland (2003a, 2008), Percus (2006), Schlenker (2006), Chemla (2008), Magri (2009)).”