Discourse structuring questions and scalar implicatures

  • Authors:

  • Anton Benz;Fabienne Salfner

  • Affiliations:

  • Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS), Berlin, Germany;Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS), Berlin, Germany

  • Venue:
  • TbiLLC'11 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Logic, Language, and Computation
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

In this paper we discuss the interdependence of scalar implicatures and discourse structuring questions. We show that even prototypical cases of scalar implicatures can depend on an explicitly or implicitly given Question under Discussion. Particularly, we argue against the idea that scalar implicatures are automatically generated by the logical form of an utterance. We distinguish between three types of discourse questions each having different effects on implicatures.