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Lagerwerf, Luuk. 1998. Causal connectives have presuppositions: Effects on coherence and discourse structure. (LOT international series 10). Holland Academic. 253 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
ISBN
90-5569-53-8

Annotation

This book details the discourse semantic properties of causal connectives and their presuppositions. It is argued that presuppositions exploit lexical knowledge to infer causal coherence relations, which, in turn, affect antecedents of propositional anaphors in discourse structure.

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