Reading for M 10/1: Grice 1975; Geurts 2010, Chap. 2

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For M 10/1, please complete the following two readings, which may both be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website.

1.  Grice, Paul. 1975. Logic and conversation. In Peter Cole and Jerry Morgan (eds.), Syntax and Semantics, Vol. 3: Speech Acts, 41-58. New York: Academic Press. (Reprinted in Grice 1989, Studies in the Way of Words, 22-40.)

2.  Geurts, Bart. 2010. Quantity Implicatures, Chap. 2 (‘The Standard Recipe for Q-Implicatures’).

Note #1 regarding the Geurts reading:  The sections entitled ‘Competence and competence+’ and ‘What are weak implicatures?’ on pgs. 37-40 may be safely omitted.

Note #2 the Geurts reading, I’ve also provided the “Notations and abbreviations” section for the entire book.  Be sure to have a look at it, both for a review of our propositional logic connectives, and also for the particular typographic conventions that Geurts employs.