Parentheticals in underspecified semantics: The case of evaluative adverbs

Research on Language and Computation

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 391-413

  Bonami, Olivier ^a,b   Godard, Danièle ^b  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b UMR 7110 Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle Université Paris Diderot   (France)

Author keywords

Adverb scope; Conventional implicature; Parenthetical; Underspecified semantics

Indexed keywords

EID: 35948948702     PISSN: 15707075     EISSN: 15728706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11168-007-9037-z     Document Type: Article

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