Yan Huang's highly successful textbook on pragmatics-the study of language in use-has
been fully revised and updated in this second edition. It includes a brand new chapter on …

In this thesis, I propose a new theory of implicature. I argue that the two main theories
available so far-the (Neo-) Gricean pragmatic theory on the one hand (eg, Sauerland …

Recent semantic research has made increasing use of a principle, Maximize
Presupposition, which requires that under certain circumstances the strongest possible …

I propose a new theory of scalar implicatures: the speaker should be in the same epistemic
status with respect to alternatives obtained via similar transformations (eg, replacements of a …

Global positive polarity items and obligatory exhaustivity Page 1 Semantics & Pragmatics Volume
7, Article 11: 1–61, 2014 http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/sp.7.11 Global positive polarity items and …

Maximize Presupposition! is an economy condition that adjudicates between contextually
equivalent competing structures. Building on data discovered by O. Percus, I will argue that …

Abstract (for Part I and Part II) There has been a recent 'experimental turn'in the study of
scalar implicature, yielding important results concerning online processing and acquisition …

A proposal for a compositional semantics for subjunctive (or would) conditionals in English.
In this book, Michela Ippolito proposes a compositional semantics for subjunctive (or would) …

We investigate the interactions between scalar implicatures and presuppositions in
sentences containing both a scalar item and presupposition trigger. We first critically discuss …

Why do predicates like know embed both declarative and interrogative clauses, whereas
closely related ones like believe only embed the former? The standard approach following …