Minimization and conversational implicature

Abstract

bringing together - (Neo-)Gricean principles of inference, - conversational analyis, and - syntax to discuss "minimization and its inferentail implications, in particular constraints on reference to third persons: "the less you say, the more you mean" 1. An anomaly in the Gricean programme ... the exact relation between I, Q and M principles, and the fact that coreferential readings are informationally reicher. 2. Principles of minimization in CA