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 …

Within the cognitive sciences, most researchers assume that it is the job of linguists to
investigate how language is represented, and that they do so largely by building theories …

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 …

Alternatives and competition in language are pervasive at all levels of linguistic analysis.
More specifically, alternatives have been argued to play a prominent role in an ever-growing …

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 …

Recently there has been a lively revival of interest in implicatures, particularly scalar
implicatures. Building on the resulting literature, our main goal in the present paper is to …

Scalar implicatures depend on alternatives in order to avoid the symmetry problem. I argue
for a structure-sensitive characterization of these alternatives: the alternatives for a structure …

We present experimental evidence showing that there is considerable variation between the
rates at which scalar expressions from different lexical scales give rise to upper-bounded …

In terms of Groenendijk and Stokhof's (1984) formalization of exhaustive interpretation, many
conversational implicatures can be accounted for. In this paper we justify and generalize this …

Predicates such as tall or to know Latin, which intuitively denote permanent properties, are
called individual-level predicates. Many peculiar properties of this class of predicates have …