Conventional Implicature

Conventional Implicature is a type of implicature that is generated by the conventional meaning of specific lexical items or constructions and thereby adds supplementary, typically non-truth-conditional information to an utterance independently of its primary asserted content.

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On (in)definite articles: implicatures and (un)grammaticality prediction

John A. Hawkins · Journal of Linguistics · 1991 · 391 citations

Language Studies, Linguistics, Pragmatics +16

Varieties of conventional implicature

Elin McCready · Semantics and Pragmatics · 2010 · 345 citations · Full text

Language Studies, Computer Science, Linguistics +10

Exclusive company: Only and the dynamics of vertical inference

Laurence Horn · Journal of Semantics · 1996 · 223 citations

Language Studies, Linguistics, Philosophy +8

Review of The Logic of Conventional Implicatures by Chris Potts

Patrícia Amaral, Craige Roberts, Elizabeth A. T. Smith · Linguistics and Philosophy · 2007 · 180 citations

Language Studies, Linguistics, Logic +12

Lauri Karttunen and Stanley Peters. Conventional implicature. Syntax and semantics, Volume 11, Presupposition, edited by Choon-Kyu Oh and David A. Dinneen, Academic Press, New York, San Francisco, and London, 1979, pp. 1–56. - Gerald Gazdar. A solution to the projection problem. Syntax and semantics, Volume 11, Presupposition, edited by Choon-Kyu Oh and David A. Dinneen, Academic Press, New York, San Francisco, and London, 1979, pp. 57–89. - Janet Dean Fodor. In defense of the truth value gap. Syntax and semantics, Volume 11, Presupposition, edited by Choon-Kyu Oh and David A. Dinneen, Academic Press, New York, San Francisco, and London, 1979, pp. 199–224. - Ruth M. Kempson. Presupposition, opacity, and ambiguity. Syntax and semantics, Volume 11, Presupposition, edited by Choon-Kyu Oh and David A. Dinneen, Academic Press, New York, San Francisco, and London, 1979, pp. 283–297. - S. K. Thomason. Truth-value gaps, many truth values, and possible worlds. Syntax and semantics, Volume 11, Presupposition, edited by Choon-Kyu Oh and David A. Dinneen, Academic Press, New York, San Francisco, and London, 1979, pp. 357–369.

Tyler Burge · Journal of Symbolic Logic · 1981 · 155 citations

Language Studies, Linguistics, Philosophy Of Language +10

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Michael Blome‐Tillmann
McGill University, Canada
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Stephen Barker
University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
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Craige Roberts
The Ohio State University, United States
2 publications · 207 citations
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William Salmon
University of Minnesota, Duluth, United States
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Olga Kagan
University of California, Los Angeles, United States
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Analysis
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Semantics and Pragmatics
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Journal of Semantics
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Linguistics and Philosophy
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