Abstract:This paper investigates how conjunctive meaning is derived from a disjunctive phrase, marked by-(i)na, in Korean. Previous studies on English disjunction phrases (Allonso-Ovalle 2005; Simons 2005; Saurland 2004; Fox 2007; Klinedinst 2007) have found that the contexts with possibility modals or plural domains provide environments for conjunctive inferences to be evoked via scalar implicatures. What is interesting in Korean-(i)na phrases is that the contexts where conjunctive meaning is derived from-(i)na appear… Show more
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