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A sentence like #Jane assigned an A to some of her students is odd in the context where every professor always assigns the same grade to all of his students, and Jane is a professor. Magri(2009, 2011) suggests that its oddness comes from the mismatch between the scalar implicature that Jane did not assign an A to all of her students and the contextual information. In Magri(2011) the focus moves from the analysis of unembedded cases to embedded cases, especially in downward entailing contexts. He argues that his mismatching implicature reasoning can also explain oddness of embedded cases. In this paper, after discussing empirical problems of Magri’s theory, I propose an alternative analysis. More specifically, I show that two conditions − Ban on Underinformativity and Ban on Overinformativity − can successfully account for the data in question. Finally, I discuss Spector(2014), and point out a conceptual question arising from his proposal.

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Abstract
 1. Introduction
 2. Magri’s Theory of Embedded Implicatures
 3. Problems of Magri’s Theory and My Proposal
  3.1. Problems of Magri’s theory
  3.2. Alternative proposal
 4. Spector’s(2014) Theory
  4.1. Brief overview of Spector’s theory
  4.2. Comments
 5. Concluding Remarks
 References

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• Jae-gyun Song [ Inje University ]

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• 간행물명

  언어과학 [Journal of Language Sciences]

• 간기

  계간

• pISSN

  1225-2522

• 수록기간

  1994~2025

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 705 DDC 405