Conjunctive interpretations of disjunctions

In this extended commentary I discuss the problem of how to account for "conjunctive" readings of some sentences with embedded disjunctions for globalist analyses of conversational implicatures. Following Franke (2010, 2009), I suggest that earlier proposals failed, because they did not ta...

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Main Author: Robert van Rooij
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Linguistic Society of America 2010-09-01
Series:Semantics and Pragmatics
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Online Access:http://semprag.org/article/view/901