'And' or 'or': General use coordination in ASL
In American Sign Language (ASL), conjunction (‘and’) and disjunction (‘or’) are often conveyed by the same general use coordinator (transcribed as “COORD”). So the sequence of signs MARY WANT TEA COORD COFFEE can be interpreted as ‘Mary wants tea or coffee’ or ‘Mary wants tea and coffee’ depending o...
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Linguistic Society of America
2013-08-01
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| Series: | Semantics and Pragmatics |
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| Online Access: | http://semprag.org/article/view/2836 |