Presuppositional exhaustification

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Itai Bassi, Guillermo Del Pinal, U. Sauerland
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Abstract

Grammatical theories of Scalar Implicatures make use of an exhaustivity operator exh , which asserts the conjunction of the prejacent with the negation of excludable alternatives. We present a new Grammatical theory of Scalar Implicatures according to which exh is replaced with pex , an operator that contributes its prejacent as asserted content, but the negation of scalar alternatives at a non-at-issue level of meaning. We show that by treating this non-at-issue level as a presupposition , this theory resolves a number of empirical challenges faced by the old formulation of exh (as well as by standard neo-Gricean theories). The empirical challenges include projection of scalar implicatures from certain embedded environments (‘ some under some ’ sentences, some under negative factives), their restricted distribution under negation, and the existence of common ground-mismatching and oddness-inducing implicatures. We argue that these puzzles have a uniform solution given a pex -based Grammatical theory of implicatures and some independently motivated principles concerning presupposition projection, cancellation and accommodation.
臆测exhaustification
标量蕴涵的语法理论利用穷竭运算符exh,它断言当前与可排除替代的否定的连接。我们提出了一种新的标量含义语法理论,根据该理论,exh被pex取代,pex是一个运算符,它将其表示作为断言的内容,但在非问题的意义水平上否定标量替代。我们表明,通过将这种无争议的水平作为一个前提,该理论解决了旧的exh公式(以及标准的新格莱斯理论)所面临的一些经验挑战。经验挑战包括从某些嵌入环境(“一些在一些”句子下,一些在否定因子下)投射标量蕴涵,它们在否定下的有限分布,以及共同基础不匹配和奇怪诱导蕴涵的存在。我们认为这些谜题有一个统一的解决方案,给出了一个基于语义的语法理论和一些关于预设投射、取消和调节的独立动机原则。
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