A pragmatic constraint on ambiguity detection : A rejoinder to Büring and Hartmann and to Reis

Natural Language and Linguistic Theory

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 139-150

  Meyer, Marie Christine ^a   Sauerland, Uli ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Zentrum fur Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft   (Germany)

Author keywords

Focus particles; Pragmatics; Reconstruction; Scope

Indexed keywords

EID: 61449127395     PISSN: 0167806X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11049-008-9060-2     Document Type: Article

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