Broaden your views: Implicatures of domain widening and the "logicality" of language

Linguistic Inquiry

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 535-590

  Chierchia, Gennaro ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alternative semantics; Free choice; Negative polarity; Scalar implicatures

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750725162     PISSN: 00243892     EISSN: 00243892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/ling.2006.37.4.535     Document Type: Article

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