defaultist
Of or relating to defaultism.
Adjective
- Of or relating to defaultism.
Origin
From default + -ist.
Noun
- 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:
- 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...
Antonyms: contextualist