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Chapter 15. Whether you like it or not, this is a paper about or not
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Ton van der Wouden
Abstract
The paper deals with the English expression or not and its Dutch counterpart of niet. It is argued that the phrase’s meaning contribution is not descriptive (truth-conditional), but primarily pragmatic in nature, with a different interpretation depending on the exact context it is used in.
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Abstract
The paper deals with the English expression or not and its Dutch counterpart of niet. It is argued that the phrase’s meaning contribution is not descriptive (truth-conditional), but primarily pragmatic in nature, with a different interpretation depending on the exact context it is used in.
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Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Dedication v
- Table of contents vii
- Introduction 1
- Chapter 1. Bridging theoretical and experimental linguistic research 9
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Data and its use
- Chapter 2. Experimental research 23
- Chapter 3. Finding long-distance dependencies in the Lassy Corpus 39
- Chapter 4. How to compare speed and accuracy of syntactic parsers 57
- Chapter 5. Adposition clusters in Dutch 77
- Chapter 6. Polarity licensing and intervention by conjunction 93
- Chapter 7. Frequential test of (S)OV as unmarked word order in Dutch and German clauses 107
- Chapter 8. Kratzer’s effect in the nominal domain 125
- Chapter 9. Is bilingual speech production language-specific or non-specific? 139
- Chapter 10. Prosody of restrictive and appositive relative clauses in Dutch and German 155
- Chapter 11. Licensing distributivity 177
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Implementation and theory building
- Chapter 12. Extending categorial grammar to phonology 193
- Chapter 13. Stacking up for the long way down 207
- Chapter 14. Meaning between algebra and culture 227
- Chapter 15. Whether you like it or not, this is a paper about or not 249
- Chapter 16. Between desire and necessity 263
- Chapter 17. Inner aspect and the comparative quantifiers 281
- Chapter 18. The expressive en maar -construction 305
- Index 327
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Dedication v
- Table of contents vii
- Introduction 1
- Chapter 1. Bridging theoretical and experimental linguistic research 9
-
Data and its use
- Chapter 2. Experimental research 23
- Chapter 3. Finding long-distance dependencies in the Lassy Corpus 39
- Chapter 4. How to compare speed and accuracy of syntactic parsers 57
- Chapter 5. Adposition clusters in Dutch 77
- Chapter 6. Polarity licensing and intervention by conjunction 93
- Chapter 7. Frequential test of (S)OV as unmarked word order in Dutch and German clauses 107
- Chapter 8. Kratzer’s effect in the nominal domain 125
- Chapter 9. Is bilingual speech production language-specific or non-specific? 139
- Chapter 10. Prosody of restrictive and appositive relative clauses in Dutch and German 155
- Chapter 11. Licensing distributivity 177
-
Implementation and theory building
- Chapter 12. Extending categorial grammar to phonology 193
- Chapter 13. Stacking up for the long way down 207
- Chapter 14. Meaning between algebra and culture 227
- Chapter 15. Whether you like it or not, this is a paper about or not 249
- Chapter 16. Between desire and necessity 263
- Chapter 17. Inner aspect and the comparative quantifiers 281
- Chapter 18. The expressive en maar -construction 305
- Index 327