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The Grammatical Theory of Scalar Implicature

Chierchia, Fox, and Spector's covert exhaustification operator, embedded implicatures, and free choice

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Will defineexhaustificationembedded implicaturefree choice inferencegrammatical theory of implicature
Assumesscalar implicatureHorn scalealternative semanticscancellability

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