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A problem with n-ary disjunctions (n ≥ 1)Take the first set of alternatives:A and (B and C)A and (B or C)A or (B and C)A B C ruled out by:1 1 1 ¬(A and (B and C))1 1 0 ¬(A and (B or C))1 0 1 ¬(A and (B or C))☞ 1 0 0 ¬(A or (B and C))0 1 1 ¬(A or (B and C))☞ 0 1 0 —☞ 0 0 1 —0 0 0 “A, B, or C”Quantity implicatures
A problem with n-ary disjunctions (n ≥ 1)Conclusion:The generative method doesn’t seem to work: in thegeneral case, exclusivity inferences don’t seem to be scalarimplicatures.How bad is this?Quantity implicatures
Page 2 and 3: Overview of the course1 Quantity im
Page 4 and 5: Quantity implicaturesGrice
Page 6 and 7: Grice on conversational implicature
Page 8 and 9: Conversational implicatures are:der
Page 10 and 11: Implicatures aren’t really cancel
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Page 14 and 15: Varieties of Q-implicatureExhaustiv
Page 16 and 17: The Standard Recipe for deriving Q-
Page 18 and 19: Bivalence, Competence, and No Opini
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Page 22 and 23: RelevanceSimplistic notion of Q-imp
Page 24 and 25: Relevance I: discourse goalsIn the
Page 26 and 27: Relevance III: general interest(15)
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Page 30 and 31: Scalar implicaturesQuantity implica
Page 32 and 33: SynopsisScalar implicatures have re
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Page 36 and 37: Downward entailmentIn a downward en
Page 38 and 39: “Scale reversal”It is often sai
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Page 42 and 43: Quantity implicaturesDisjunction
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Page 46 and 47: A problem with strong exclusivityTh
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