Contrast and the structure of discourse

The semantics of the coordinator <em>but</em> does not fit neatly into the traditional distinction between entailments and conversational implicatures. In its <em>counterexpectational</em> use, <em>but</em> can convey an implication relating its two conjuncts, whi...

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Main Author: Maziar Toosarvandani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Linguistic Society of America 2014-04-01
Series:Semantics and Pragmatics
Subjects:
but
Online Access:http://semprag.org/article/view/2822