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Scalar implicatures with discourse referents: a case study on plurality inferences

被引：1
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作者：
Sudo, Yasutada [1 ]
机构：
[1] UCL, 2 Wakefield St, London W1CN 1PF, England
来源：
LINGUISTICS AND PHILOSOPHY | 2023年 / 46卷 / 05期
关键词：
Discourse referents; Scalar implicatures; Dynamic semantics; Plurality inferences; SEMANTICS; PRAGMATICS; PRONOUNS;
D O I：
10.1007/s10988-023-09381-6
中图分类号：
H0 [语言学];
学科分类号：
030303 ; 0501 ; 050102 ;
摘要：
This paper explores the idea that scalar implicatures are computed with respect to discourse referents. Given the general consensus that a proper account of pronominal anaphora in natural language requires discourse referents separately from the truth-conditional meaning, it is naturally expected that the anaphoric information that discourse referents carry play a role in the computation of scalar implicatures, but the literature has so far mostly exclusively focused on the truth-conditional dimension of meaning. This paper offers a formal theory of scalar implicatures with discourse referents couched in dynamic semantics, and demonstrates its usefulness through a case study on the plurality inferences of plural nouns in English.
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页码：1161 / 1217
页数：57
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