Over the past forty years, scientists have developed models of human reasoning based on
the principle that human languages and classical logic involve fundamentally different …

I provide an overview of four current theories of scalar implicature: the pragmatic (or
Gricean), the lexical, a combined pragmatic+ lexical, and the grammatical theory. The …

This book investigates the relation between language and logic. Gennaro Chierchia looks at
the way syntactic and inferential processes interact in determining polarity sensitive and free …

The distinction between telic and atelic predicates has been described in terms of the
algebraic properties of their meaning since the early days of modeltheoretic semantics. This …

Sense and Sensitivity advances a novel research proposal in the nascent field of formal
pragmatics, exploring in detail the semantics and pragmatics of focus in natural language …

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This chapter will be concerned with the conjunctive interpretation of a family of disjunctive
constructions. The relevant conjunctive interpretation, sometimes referred to as a 'free …

The quantificational system in Japanese makes use of so-called indeterminate pronouns,
which take on existential, universal, interrogative, negative polarity, or free choice …

Negative polarity phenomena, as exemplified in the behavior of English any, and scalar
implicatures, as exemplified by, say, the interpretations of some (ie,“at least one and …

This article develops various arguments for the view that scalar implicatures should be de-
rived within grammar and not by a theory of language use (pragmatics). We focus primarily …