Quantity implicatures are inferences triggered by an utterance based on what other
utterances a speaker could have made instead. Using ideas and formalisms from game …

Inferences of the sort: A or B; therefore A, are invalid. Yet, the paradoxes of free choice are
acceptable: You can have sole or lobster; so, you can have sole. Pragmatic theories attempt …

In this extended commentary I discuss the problem of how to account for" conjunctive"
readings of some sentences with embedded disjunctions for globalist analyses of …

Conventionalist theories of scalar implicature differ from other accounts in that they predict
strengthening of embedded scalar terms. Geurts and Pouscoulous (2009) argue that …

Free Choice (FC) is an inference arising from the interaction between existential modals and
disjunction. Schematically, a sentence of the form permitted (A or B) gives rise to the …

Quantity matters Page 1 Quantity matters Implicatures, typicality and truth Bob van Tiel Page 2
Page 3 Quantity matters Implicatures, typicality and truth Proefschrift ter verkrijging van de …

Experimental evidence on embedded implicatures by Chemla (2009b) and Geurts &
Pouscoulous (2009a) has fewer theoretical consequences than assumed: On the one hand …

If someone tells me that I can have coffee or tea, I infer that I can have coffee and that I can
have tea. These so-called free choice inferences (FCIs) appear to compromise the widely …

A disjunction of two assertions, Either p or else q, but not both, where p and q are everyday
assertions, is equivalent to a metadisjunction, such as: Witness 1 asserts p. Witness 2 …

In everyday conversations, language users often derive inferences that extend beyond the
literal content of the assertions made by the interlocutors. For example, the assertion of a …