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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Linguistic Society of America
2014-04-01
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| Series: | Semantics and Pragmatics |
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| Online Access: | http://semprag.org/article/view/2822 |