defaultist

default +‎ -ist

defaultist (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to defaultism.

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:

     Hence, there can be little doubt that Levinson is a strong defaultist.

   • 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.

2. (finance) One who believes a government should default on its debts. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)