Issues in the semantics and pragmatics of disjunction (PhD Thesis)


Ph.D. thesis


Mandy Simons
Cornell University, 1998

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Simons, M. (1998). Issues in the semantics and pragmatics of disjunction (PhD Thesis) (PhD thesis). Cornell University.


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Simons, Mandy. Issues in the Semantics and Pragmatics of Disjunction (PhD Thesis). Cornell University, 1998.


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@phdthesis{mandy1998a,
  title = {Issues in the semantics and pragmatics of disjunction (PhD Thesis)},
  year = {1998},
  school = {Cornell University},
  author = {Simons, Mandy},
  howpublished = {Published by Routledge under the title: "On the Semantics and Pragmatics of Natural Language Disjunction" (2000)}
}

Contents

  • Chapter 1: Overview; the Stalnakerian model of Presupposition and Assertion; Dynamic Semantics
  • Chapter 2: Disjunctive sentences in discourse: the discourse function and felicity conditions of disjunction (including a discussion of the exclusive interpretation of or
  • Chapter 3: Presupposition projection
  • Chapter 4: Internal anaphora (anaphora between disjuncts)
  • Chapter 5: External anaphora