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Michaelis, Laura A. 1994. Expectation contravention and use ambiguity: The Vietnamese connective cung. Journal of Pragmatics 21 (1) : 1–36.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166

Annotation

//Nog een tekentje op de u.// A semantic account of the various usages of the Vietnamese sentential connective CUNG, which all flag assertions that contravene expectations brought about by word knowledge or discourse context. The addressee has to infer the form of expectation violation involved by retreat to a pragmatic default: when the upper-bounding implicature is not deducible, the nonscalar variety will be invoked.