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defaultist en · ADJ

Etymology

From default + -ist.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Of or relating to defaultism.

defaultist en · NOUN

Etymology

From default + -ist.

Meanings

1. One who believes that scalar implicatures arise from a default association with a word, rather than arising from contextual inference.
   • There is, however, no true conflict between defaultists and contextualists. 2018, Rita Finkbeiner, Ulrike Freywald, Exact Repetition in Grammar and Discourse:
   • For Experiment 8, the defaultists could make a similar argument about the absence of an SI-cancellation effect that I made about the absence of an SI-calculation effect. 2010, Arjen Zondervan, Scalar Implicatures Or Focus: An Experimental Approach, page 191:
   • A defaultist believes that the default interpretation of the phrase "some eels are fish" is the pragmatic interpretation "some, but not all, eels are fish".
   • Hence, there can be little doubt that Levinson is a strong defaultist. 2010, Bart Geurts, Quantity Implicatures, page 87:

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Antonyms

contextualist