More Than Bare Existence: An Implicature of Existential Bare Plurals  

Oleh:

Cohen, Ariel

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Semantics (Sebagian Full Text) vol. 22 no. 4 (Nov. 2005), page 389–400.
Topik: Existential bare plurals; Explicit Existentials
Fulltext: vol 22, no 4, p 389-400.pdf (85.49KB)

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Existential bare plurals (e.g. dogs) have the same semantics as explicit existentials (e.g. a dog or some dogs) but different pragmatics. In addition to entailing the existence of a set of individuals, existential bare plurals implicate that this set is suitable for some purpose. The suitability implicature is a form of what has been variously called informativeness-based or R-based implicature. Condoravdi (1992, 1994) and others have claimed that bare plurals have a third reading (in addition to the generic and the existential), sometimes called quasi-universal. However, the suitability implicature is sufficient to account for the quasi-universal interpretation, without the need to stipulate a distinct reading of bare plurals.

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