defaultist

English

Etymology

default +‎ -ist

Adjective

defaultist (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to defaultism.

Noun

defaultist (plural defaultists)

  1. (semantics) One who believes in a defaultist interpretation of scalar implicature, that is, that scalar implicatures arise from a default association with a word, rather than arising from contextual inference.
    • Antonym: contextualist
    • 2010, Bart Geurts, Quantity Implicatures, page 87:
    • 2010, Arjen Zondervan, Scalar Implicatures Or Focus: An Experimental Approach, page 191:
      For Experiment 8, the defaultists could make a similar argument about the absense of an SI-cancellation effect that I made about the absence of an SI-calculation effect.
    • 2018, Rita Finkbeiner, Ulrike Freywald, Exact Repetition in Grammar and Discourse:
      There is, however, no true conflict between defaultists and contextualists.
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