A semantic theory of redundancy.
Theorists trying to model natural language have recently sought to explain a range of data by positing covert operators at logical form. For instance, many contemporary semanticists argue that the best way to capture scalar implicatures is through the use of such operators. We take inspiration from...
| Publicado en: | Linguistics & Philosophy Vol. 48; no. 4; pp. 787 - 822 |
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