Deriving Hurford's Constraint

Authors

  • Marie-Christine Meyer Hebrew University Jerusalem

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3765/salt.v24i0.2518

Abstract

I show that the infelicity of disjunctions in which one disjunct entails the other ("Hurford disjunctions"), as well as the felicity of a subclass of Hurford disjunctions (e.g., some or all), can be derived from a general principle of Brevity under the independently motivated assumption that uncertainty implicatures are generated in the grammar.

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Published

2014-08-05

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Proceedings of SALT 24

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