The Logic of Conventional Implicatures

• "No one who aims to keep abreast of semantics, pragmatics, syntax, philosophy of language, or applications of logic to natural language can afford to overlook this impressive contribution to the linguistics literature." OUP referee
• Develops a new theory of how conventional implicatures should be handled in the compositional semantics
• "Chris Potts's book is a milestone in our understanding of the way that syntax and pragmatics interface with each other." David Adger

Readership: Scholars and advanced students of semantics, pragmatics, syntax, and their interfaces; philosophers of language and logicians; computer scientists interested in natural language analysis and applications.

Christopher Potts, University of Massachusetts

"a virtuosic blend of astute descriptive observations and technically sophisticated formulations," - Kent Bach, Journal of Linguistics

"The Logic of Conventional Implicatures, by Christopher Potts, which I consider one of the highlights of 2005, presents an ingenious new theory for describing the semantic interpretation of sentences that are said to contain 'conventional implicatures' (CIs)." - The Year's Work in English Studies

1: Introduction
2: A Preliminary Case for Conventional Implicatures
3: A Logic for Conventional Implicatures
4: Supplements
5: Expressive Content
6: The Supplement Relation: A Syntactic Analysis
7: A Look Outside Grice's Definition
Appendix
Bibliography