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Default interpretations are here defaults for processing of an utterance in a particular context.
There are rules of discourse, so-called rhetorical structure rules, that produce such default interpretations.
The diversity of default interpretations pertains not only to their features listed in [1] [8] but also to their provenance.
This comparison of various selected approaches to default interpretations in semantics and pragmatics allows for some generalizations.
In other words, context is incorporated even sooner into the process of utterance interpretation than in Gricean accounts and allows for non-defeasible, albeit standard, default, interpretations.
The best example of how default interpretations can be accounted for in formal semantic theory is Segmented Discourse Representation Theory (SDRT, e.g., Asher and Lascarides 2003).
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This interpretation results from the systematic default interpretation of a resultative de-part with an overt NP.
This constraint guides the general or default interpretation of V-DE constructions whose de-part has an overt NP and is semantically resultative.
Notice that the default interpretation of a term is its proper sense, defined as "the signification properly and principally given to it".
Regarding the slow switch experiment, the default interpretation is that Oscar's water concept is wholly replaced with a twin water concept (see, e.g., Ludlow 1996, Brueckner 1997).
It is not a long step to the supposition that the default interpretation of the null element is to treat it as the definite determiner 'the'the
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