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Publication details [#42566]

Blakemore, Diane. 2005. and-parentheticals. Journal of Pragmatics 37 (8) : 1165–1181.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

interpretation | parenthetical adjunct | pragmatics | semantics1

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper shows how utterances containing detached and-conjuncts -possibly posing problems for semantic and pragmatic accounts- can be accounted for by Blakemore and Carston's relevance theoretic account of the interpretation of and-utterances.