Dividing things up: The semantics of or and the modal/or interaction

Natural Language Semantics

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 271-316

  Simons, Mandy ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 17144387514     PISSN: 0925854X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11050-004-2900-7     Document Type: Article

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