The logic of conventional implicatures

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"Wh"-exclamatives in Catalan (2006, methodology): “I have employed Potts (2003)’s account of conventional implicatures to argue that manner adverbs within an exclamative environment behave like nonrestrictive modifiers.”
On the exceptional status of reportative evidentials (2014, background): “• For example, Potts (2005) proposes a semantics where appositive relative clauses and expressive epithets are uniformly speaker-oriented: (16) a.”
Predicting the presuppositions of soft triggers (2011, background): “…Stalnaker 1974; Abbott 2000; Chierchia and McConnell-Ginet 2000) and is also shared by the present paper, according to which presuppositions (and conventional implicatures in the sense of Potts 2005) are typically not the main point of what is said (or at-issue, in Simons et al.’s terminology).”
The expressive dimension (2007, background): “It says that we can change or remove the expressive content of a phrase without affecting its descriptive content (Potts2005:§3.6.3).”
Must . . . stay . . . strong! (2010, background): “The recent treatment of such parentheticals by Potts (2005) might be thought to be adaptable to the analysis of epistemic modals.”
Only, Emotive Factive Verbs, and the Dual Nature of Polarity Dependency (2006, methodology): “As an important implication, it became necessary to keep semantic information (accessible at LF) clean of pragmatics, in accordance with the neo-Gricean view and Potts 2005.”