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Explaining Conjunction Systems: Russian, English, German

Year: 2019

Type: article

Abstract: The paper analyses the Russian conjunctions i, a and no, the English conjunctions and and but and the German conjunctions und, aber and sondern in terms of specialised additivity: special cases of the relation between sentences expressed by too and also. The first section gives an overview of the analysis, the second section tries to give an explicit characterisation of additivity and its specialisations. The third section uses an OT-like framework to explain the complementary distribution of the conjunctions and the blocking effects that result.

Source: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung

DOI: 10.18148/sub/2009.v13i1.530

Authors: Jasinskaja, Katja, Zeevat, Henk

Institutions: University of Stuttgart, University of Amsterdam

Language: English

Topic: Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

Subfield: Language and Linguistics

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W5498040

FWCI: 7.092

Cites: 15

Cited by: 58

Related to: 10