Professor Jacob Mey is one of the most respected, enterprising, industrious, scholarly and, avuncular members of the many linguistics communities in which he has worked. This collection includes invited papers that honours Professor Mey on the occasion of his eightieth birthday.
Presents an alternative account of the meaning of English cardinals and the ways in which their interpretation is influenced by other linguistic elements. This work offers the linguist an iridescent history of this often misconstrued, topics in contemporary meaning research: the conversational implicatures.