defaultist
defaultist adjective: of or relating to defaultism.
Adjective
defaultist (not comparable)
- Of or relating to defaultism.
Noun
defaultist (plural defaultists)
- One who believes that scalar implicatures arise from a default association with a word, rather than arising from contextual inference.
- 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
- Antonyms:
- contextualist
Examples of defaultist in a sentence
- 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:
- There is, however, no true conflict between defaultists and contextualists.2018, Rita Finkbeiner, Ulrike Freywald, Exact Repetition in Grammar and Discourse:
Antonyms of defaultist
Forms of defaultist
| plural | defaultists |
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Origin of defaultist
From default + -ist.
Questions about defaultist
- What does defaultist mean?
- Defaultist means of or relating to defaultism.
- How do you use defaultist in a sentence?
- 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.
- What part of speech is defaultist?
- Defaultist can be an adjective or a noun.
Words near defaultist in the dictionary
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