 An impressive body of research has attempted to discern general regularities in the multitude of conversational implicature conventions associated with a language. Wierzbicka (1985, 2003) has studied how implicature conventions reflect broader “cultural scripts”. Others study how the implicatures of a sentence are related to the implicatures of compound sentences in which the sentence is embedded (Gazdar 1979; Levinson 2000: §2.5.1; Sauerland &amp; Stateva 2007)—the question raised by example  (16).