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Monday, March 28, 2011

Free choice -- Griceian Key (Aloni/Roy pragmatic approach citing Grice)

Free Choice Items and Alternatives
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by Maria Aloni , Robert Van Rooij


"Extending the proposal made by Schulz (2003), we put forward a pragmatic account of the meaning of existential and universal Free-Choice items, where the ‘ignorance or indifference ’ inference triggered by the former and the ‘universal ’ inference triggered by the latter are treated as

a conversational implicature

obtained by standard

Griceian

reasoning formalized in terms of the two operations grice and competence."

"On this account, the

conversational implicature of a sentence is generated with respect to a number of relevant alternatives.

The difference between existential and universal Free Choices is due only to the choice of these alternatives. 1

Citations37

The Semantics and Pragmatics of Polarity Items, Linguistic Analysis – Krifka - 1995

30 Indefinite Pronouns – Haspelmath - 1997

26 2002) “Indeterminate Pronouns: The View from Japanese – Kratzer, Shimoyama

17 Any as inherently modal – Dayal - 1998

12 "Free choice disjunction and epistemic possibility – Zimmermann - 2000

11 Logic and Conversation’, typescript from the William James Lectures – Grice - 1967

9 You May Read It Now or Later: A Case Study on the Paradox of Free Choice Permission – Schulz

7 On choice-offering imperatives – Aloni

6 2004), ‘Exhaustive interpretation of complex sentences – Rooij

3 may read it now or later: A case study on the paradox of free choice permission – You

2 Grundzüge einer deutschen Grammatik – Autorenkollektiv - 1981

1 2003, Negative polarity items in questions: strength as relevance – Rooij

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