Presuppositional and negative islands: A semantic account

Natural Language Semantics

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 257-321

  Abrusán, Márta ^a  

^a SOMERVILLE COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contradiction; Interval based semantics for degrees; Negative islands; Presuppositional islands; Weak islands

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961207714     PISSN: 0925854X     EISSN: 1572865X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11050-010-9064-4     Document Type: Article

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