Innocent exclusion in an alternative semantics

Natural Language Semantics

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 115-128

  Alonso Ovalle, Luis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative semantics; Disjunction; Scalar implicatures

Indexed keywords

EID: 44949168432     PISSN: 0925854X     EISSN: 1572865X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11050-008-9027-1     Document Type: Article

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