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Crossroads Semantics: Computation, experiment and grammarEdited by Hilke Reckman, Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng, Maarten Hijzelendoorn and Rint Sybesma
[Not in series 210] 2017
► pp. 249–261
The paper deals with the English expression or not and its Dutch counterpart of niet. It is argued that the phrase’s meaning contribution is not descriptive (truth-conditional), but primarily pragmatic in nature, with a different interpretation depending on the exact context it is used in.