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Hasegawa, Yoko. 1996. The (nonvacuous) semantics of TE-linkage in Japanese. Journal of Pragmatics 25 (6) : 763–790.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

cognition | conjunction1 | conversational implicature | pragmatics | semantics1

Language as a subject

Japanese

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper argues that Japanese TE-linkage has its own inherent meanings that can only be understood in cognitive terms, besides the traditional semantic relations associated with TE-linkage, inferable solely from the meanings of the conjuncts.