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Exhaustivity as a Pragmatic Phenomenon

  Exhaustivity is well-documented for the interpretation of answers of such question-answer pairs as "Who solved the problem-John". That is, the answer is likely to mean that only John solved the problem. Such a phenomenon is also dealt with in this paper. The current paper shows that exhaustivity is a pragmatic phenomenon, against Szabolcsi (1981), Groenendijk & Stokhof (1983)(hereafter G&S), Sevi (2005), and more recently Fox (2006) where exhaustivity is treated as a semantic or lexical phenomenon. The argument of the current paper relies on a meaning computation mechanism, which is based on focus-introduced Horn scales and scalar principle or Neo-Gricean Maxim of Quantity in line with Sauerland (2004).