Issues in the Semantics and Pragmatics of Disjunction

Issues in the Semantics and Pragmatics of Disjunction
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 276
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ISBN-10 : 9781315520322
ISBN-13 : 131552032X
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Book Synopsis Issues in the Semantics and Pragmatics of Disjunction by : Mandy Simons

Download or read book Issues in the Semantics and Pragmatics of Disjunction written by Mandy Simons and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-11-18 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2000, this book is about sentences containing the word or, dealing primarily with sentences in which or conjoins clauses, but also some cases in which it conjoins expressions of other categories. The author aims to give an account of the discourse properties and felicity conditions of disjunction, and to use this account in explaining the behaviour of presupposition projection and of anaphora in disjunctive sentences. The author begins by giving an account of the discourse properties and felicity conditions of disjunction before turning to the presupposition projection problem. The final two chapters discuss anaphora and its interactions with disjunction.


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