Exhaustive Interpretation of Complex Sentences

  • Authors:
  • Robert Rooij;Katrin Schulz

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, Universiteit van Amsterdam, CP Amsterdam, The Netherlands 1012;Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, Universiteit van Amsterdam, CP Amsterdam, The Netherlands 1012

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Logic, Language and Information
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

In terms of Groenendijk and Stokhof驴s (1984) formalization of exhaustive interpretation, many conversational implicatures can be accounted for. In this paper we justify and generalize this approach. Our justification proceeds by relating their account via Halpern and Moses驴 (1984) non-monotonic theory of `only knowing驴 to the Gricean maxims of Quality and the first sub-maxim of Quantity. The approach of Groenendijk and Stokhof (1984) is generalized such that it can also account for implicatures that are triggered in subclauses not entailed by the whole complex sentence.