#3802. An Implicature account of Homogeneity and Non-maximality

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Abstract:
I provide arguments in favor of an implicature approach to Homogeneity where the basic meaning of the kids laughed is some of the kids laughed, and its strengthened meaning is all of the kids laughed. I propose to avoid some problems of Magri’s analysis by modeling the Implicature account of Homogeneity after the Implicature account of Free Choice, based on a hitherto unnoticed analogy between the two phenomena. The approach that emerges has the advantages of Magri’s implicature account of Homogeneity (predicting asymmetries), while at the same time bears a close resemblance to recent approaches to Non-maximality, which enables restating their account of Non-maximality as following from the context-sensitivity of implicature calculation.
Keywords:
Context dependency; Exhaustivity; Homogeneity; Innocent inclusion; Non-maximality

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