Pseudo-imperatives and other cases of conditional conjunction and conjunctive disjunction

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Publication date 2008
Journal Studies in Language Companion Series
Event 'Subordination' vs. 'coordination' in sentence and text from a cross-linguistic perspective (workshop AG 8 at DGfS 2006), Bielefeld, Germany
Volume | Issue number 98
Pages (from-to) 255-279
Organisations
  • Interfacultary Research - Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
Abstract Pseudo-imperatives, a special kind of sentential conjunctions and disjunctions, display a surprisingly divergent preference bias. This paper aims to explain this pragmatic preference puzzle based on the different discourse segmentation behavior of conjunction and 'and' disjunction 'or'. To lend credence to the suggested explanation, related non-standard uses of conjunction and disjunction will be discussed in detail.
Document type Article
Note Proceedings title: 'Subordination' versus 'coordination' in sentence and text: A cross-linguistic perspective Publisher: John Benjamins Place of publication: Philadelphia ISBN: 978 90 272 3109 3 Editors: C. Fabricius-Hansen, W. Ramm
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