Latest documents http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/index/index/ Tue, 05 May 2009 11:22:46 +0200 Tue, 05 May 2009 11:22:46 +0200 http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/11847 The Gricean approach explains implicatures by assumptions about the pragmatics of entire utterances. The phenomenon of embedded implicatures remains a challenge for this approach since in such cases apparently implicatures contribute to the truth-conditional content of constituents smaller than utterances. In this paper, I investigate three areas where embedded implicatures seem to differ from implicatures at the utterance level: optionality, epistemic status, and implicated presuppositions. I conclude that the differences between the two kinds of implicatures justify an approach that maintains Gricean assumptions at the utterance level, and assumes a special operator for embedded implicatures. Uli Sauerland preprint http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/11847 Tue, 05 May 2009 11:22:46 +0200