Disjunction in alternative semantics
The standard semantic analysis of natural language disjunction maintains that or is the Boolean join. This dissertation makes a case for a Hamblin-style semantics, under which disjunctions denote sets of propositions. Chapter 2 shows that the standard semantics does not capture the natural interpret...
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| Language: | ENG |
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
2006
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3242324 |