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
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