A Note on Embedded Implicatures and Counterfactual Presuppositions

Journal of Semantics 28 (2):267-278 (2011)
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I show that wish, an attitude verb presupposing the counterfactuality of its complement, raises a problem for grammatical theories of scalar implicatures when a scalar item is embedded in its complement

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Economy and embedded exhaustification.Danny Fox & Benjamin Spector - 2018 - Natural Language Semantics 26 (1):1-50.
Scalar implicatures of embedded disjunction.Luka Crnič, Emmanuel Chemla & Danny Fox - 2015 - Natural Language Semantics 23 (4):271-305.

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On the meaning of only.Ippolito Michela - 2008 - Journal of Semantics 25 (1):45-91.

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