Re: CHAT: Introduction

Hi!

"Thomas R. Wier" <trwier@...> writes:
>...
> Such conventionalized
> pragmatic implicatures abound in every language.  For example, in
> German one says the equivalent of "He nodded with the head", and one
> knows by implicature that the head in question belongs to the subject,
> even though formally, the sentence does not say as much.
>...
What?  I don't understand.  Could you describe this in more detail or
give an example (in German)?

**Henrik

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