Where does the strongest meaning hypothesis apply?
- The Strongest Meaning Hypothesis (SMH henceforth), a pragmatic principle motivated in Dalrymple et al.'s (1998) study of reciprocals, has recently been applied to problems in implicatures (Chierchia et al. to appear) and Vagueness (Cobreros et al. 2011). In this snippet, I argue that the SMH can apply to embedded sentences, which is perhaps unusual for a pragmatic principle.
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| Author: | Uli Sauerland |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-385768 |
| URL: | http://www.ledonline.it/snippets/allegati/snippets25005.pdf |
| ISSN: | 1590-1807 |
| Parent Title (English): | Snippets |
| Publisher: | LED |
| Place of publication: | Milano |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of Completion: | 2012 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2012 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2015/11/18 |
| GND Keyword: | Vagheit; Pragmatik; Implikatur |
| Volume: | 25 |
| Page Number: | 2 |
| First Page: | 13 |
| Last Page: | 14 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 435257722 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik |
| Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Pragmalinguistik/Kommunikationsforschung / Pragmalinguistics/Communication research |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
