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This paper was mainly motivated by Sauerland (2004): Sauerland defended the traditional global view of scalar implicatures in response to Chierchia (2004), who criticized the global approaches and instead proposed a local view. In this paper, I present novel evidence that the global view still faces some serious, if not unsurmountable, empirical difficulties, even if Sauerland's (2004) contributions are taken into consideration. My arguments consist of three parts. First, the basic tenet of global view is bound to suffer from the binding problem, which closely parallels the binding problem of presupposition projection. Second, it makes an incorrect prediction that a scalar implicature should be cancelled when its presence is obviously felt. Third, Sauerland's two main proposals, the partially ordered scale of disjunction and the two epistemic step hypothesis, which are made to explain the data Chierchia presented in favor of the local view, are also not free from empirical flaws. All my arguments point to the conclusion that scalar implicatures are, or at least can be, introduced locally.
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scalar Implicature, global, local, computation, disjunction
