queries about quantifiers

[Ash Asudeh]

Dear Emily, Howard, and list members,

I think (Larry) Horn would make an excellent starting point for Howard's
second point. I'm not sure where the relevant stuff is published, though.
I'm sure it does appear somewhere, because I heard him give a related talk
at CLS a couple of years ago (maybe check the proceedings for CLS 38 when
they come out).

I think the gist of Horn's LSA talk was that since there is an implicature
from "some" to "not all", "not all" is unnecessary (according to Gricean
pragmatics).

I remember wondering at the time, though, whether this really explains
things. Since "not all" equally implicates "some" (otherwise the speaker
should use "no" according to Gricean principles), why isn't "not all"
lexicalized at "some"'s expense?

I probably missed some detail of the presentation.

Best,
Ash

On Sun, 18 Jan 2004, Emily Bender wrote:

> Dear Howard,
>
> I believe that Horn addressed your second point (the lack of
> lexicalization of "not all") in his talk 'Lexical Pragmatics: H. Paul,
> Grice and beyond' at the LSA earlier this month.  He gave a pragmatic
> explanation for it, although the details escape me now...
>
> Emily
>