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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      04 February 2011
      02 December 2010
      ISBN:
      9780511975158
      9780521769136
      9781107641921
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511975158
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.62kg, 220 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (244 x 170 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.36kg, 222 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Grammar and Syntax, Language and Linguistics, Semantics and Pragmatics
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    In recent years, quantity implicatures - a type of pragmatic inference - have been widely debated in linguistics, philosophy, and psychology, and have been subject to an enormous variety of analyses, ranging from lexical, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic, to various hybrid accounts. In this first book-length discussion of the topic, Bart Geurts presents a theory of quantity implicatures that is resolutely pragmatic, arguing that the orthodox Gricean approach to conversational implicature is capable of accounting for all the standard cases of quantity implicature, and more. He shows how the theory deals with free-choice inferences as merely a garden variety of quantity implicatures, and gives an in-depth treatment of so-called 'embedded implicatures'. Moreover, as well as offering a comprehensive theory of quantity implicatures, he also takes into account experimental data and processing issues. Original and pioneering, and avoiding technical terminology, this insightful study will be invaluable to linguists, philosophers, and experimental psychologists alike.

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    '… a wonderfully carried out, thought-provoking theoretical study of the advertised quantity implicatures. It is a good read … and a must for anyone interested in theoretical pragmatics.'

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