Exemplification with disjunction
Anna Szabolcsi
August 2022 

This paper points out naturally-occurring examples, primarily in Hungarian but also to a more limited extent in English, in which disjunction (i) has a conjunctive force but (ii) its use highlights that the list is not intended to be exhaustive. (Hence the name "exemplification.") The preliminary analysis is in terms of recursive proposition strengthening by exhaustification without a scalar alternative, assimilating exemplifications to known cases of conjunctively interpreted disjunctions in other languages. -- The 2020 publication is in Hungarian (Példálózás, diszjunkcióval). The 2022 version here is an English translation.

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Reference:	lingbuzz/005448 (please use that when you cite this article)
Published in:	Általános Nyelvészeti Tanulmányok XXXII: 321-329 (2020)
keywords:	disjunction, conjunction, grammaticized implicature, naturally-occurring data, semantics, syntax
previous versions:	v1 [September 2020]
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