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Downward entailmentIn a downward entailing (DE) environment, entailment relationsare reversed:(1) a. Fred’s car is navy blue ⇒ Fred’s car is blueb. Fred’s car isn’t navy blue Fred’s car is bluec. Fred’s car isn’t blue ⇒ Fred’s car isn’t navy blue Negation creates a DE environment.(2) a. All [cars] [are navy blue] ⇒ All [cars] [are blue]b. All [blue cars] [are cheap] ⇒ All [navy blue cars] [are cheap] In a sentence of the form “All φ are ψ”, φ is a DE environment,but ψ isn’t.Quantity implicatures
Downward entailment and scalar implicaturesSince scalar implicatures are based on the relative strength ofscalar expressions, and downward entailment affects relativestrength, downward entailment and scalar implicature arebound to interact.(3) Fred read many of these novelsentailment: Fred read some of these novelsimplicature: ¬(Fred read all of these novels)(4) Fred didn’t read many of these novelsentailment: Fred didn’t read all of these novelsimplicature: ¬(Fred didn’t read some of these novels)= Fred read some of these novelsQuantity implicatures
Page 2 and 3: Overview of the course1 Quantity im
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Page 14 and 15: Varieties of Q-implicatureExhaustiv
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