By Günther Grewendorf
Bringing jointly papers from quite a few subfields of theoretical linguistics, this quantity supplies a consultant glimpse of present study of shape and serve as in grammar. Its overarching subject is the relation among the foremost clause forms and their canonical or idiosyncratic roles in discourse. although not one of the papers addresses the subject in its complete breadth, all of them make their particular contributions to it, scrutinizing the pertinent points of the grammatical interfaces and elaborating targeted case stories.
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Implicatures in Discourse 23 The principal motivation for the localist approach is the presence of embedded implicatures, which can present problems for Neo-Gricean approaches. (10) John did the reading or some of the homework. This implicates John didn’t do the reading and some of the homework. It also implicates that he didn’t do all of the homework. But it doesn’t implicate that ¬ (John did the reading or all of the homework). Since Griceans compute implicatures only on whole utterances or full sentences, it’s not clear how to get the second implicature.
You must sit down right now! (Order) You should talk to your advisor about this! (Advice) Won’t you please help me? (Request) You may have a piece of fruit! (Permission) I will refer to (1d) as a permission imperative and the others as requirement imperatives. Choice phenomena An intuitive way of describing the function of a permission sentence is to say that it offers the addressee a choice s/he didn’t have before. When a permission sentence offers more than one choice at the same time, we call it a “free choice” sentence.
John has an even number of children (π1 ). He has three (children) (π2 ). John has an even number of children (π1 ). He has at least three (children) (π2 ). John has an even number of children. He has four (children). A Gricean or a localist like Chierchia should predict that (33a)–(33c) are OK, since the implicature to the stronger, “exactly” meaning of three should be blocked. However, it is not, and (33b) is infelicitous. Once again, I believe this stems from an interaction of discourse structure and implicatures: there is a particular sort of elaborative move going on in the second clauses of (33), which accounts for the freezing of the implicature.