Language
Volume 80, Number 3, September 2004
E-ISSN: 1535-0665 Print ISSN: 0097-8507
DOI: 10.1353/lan.2004.0157
Whitman, Neal.
Semantics and Pragmatics of English Verbal Dependent Coordination
Language - Volume 80, Number 3, September 2004, pp. 403-434
Linguistic Society of America
This article investigates coordination of verbal adjuncts and complements in English, considering
coordinations of adjunct with adjunct, complement with complement, and adjunct with complement,
for both non-WH and WH elements, using the conjunctions or, and, and but. Previous analyses
have never to my knowledge covered all of these cases. It is shown that syntactic or (compositional)
semantic constraints on coordination fail to cover all the facts, as do ambiguity-based explanations.
Better (though still incomplete) coverage is provided by an analysis based on event semantics
and neo-Gricean conversational implicature.
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