Sentence examples for limiting implicatures from inspiring English sources

There are many other limiting implicatures.

"Beethoven wrote some wonderful music" and "Beethoven wrote some wonderful music" would have limiting implicatures, but different ones.

Limiting implicatures like (3) are explained in terms of the maxim of Quantity, and so are called quantity implicatures.

Another problem is to explain why we often find "close-but" implicatures rather than limiting implicatures (Davis 1998: §2.1, §3.6).

If the indeterminacy Grice perceives here is the incalculability of the implicatum, then it contradicts the determinacy condition.[21] Ignorance implicatures are often an alternative to limiting implicatures.

Since stress does not affect the set of stronger statements, the Levinsonian derivation would predict the same limiting implicatures no matter what is stressed.

(3b) is a limiting implicature: the speaker implicates the denial of a proposition stronger than the one asserted.

This would happen if S says "I ate some of the cookies" and H cannot figure out whether S is engaging in limiting implicature or understatement.

With no stress, "Beethoven wrote some wonderful music" would not ordinarily have a limiting implicature, in contrast to "Beethoven wrote some wonderful music".

Studies have shown comprehension and production as early as age three for metaphor and four for limiting implicature.[7] The most widely recognized forms of implicature are the figures of speech (tropes).

Condition (i) combines Q and R in a way that avoids both clashes and circularity, while (ii) replaces M and Manner, plus possibly Politeness and Style.[29] To illustrate how Optimality works, consider a limiting implicature such as (3).