Coercion

Cryptic coercion.

Defeating Us Coercion

The bombing of Serbia that began on 24 March 1999 typifies the logic that underlies the use of force by the United States and its NATO allies. Their air strikes and cruise-missile attacks were designed not to defeat the Serbian government, but to coerce Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to accept a political settlement. Instead of having to destroy his forces completely or to remove his gov...

Intensionality and Coercion∗

Several linguistic tests were developed to distinguish aspectual classes. For example, adverbial modification with for two hours is possible with activities (John ran for two hours) but not with accomplishments (*John built a house for two years) or achievements. Temporal modification with the adverbial in two hours shows the reverse pattern. Usually only activities and accomplishments can occu...

Coercion and Compositionality

Research in psycholinguistics and in the cognitive neuroscience of language has suggested that semantic and syntactic processing are associated with different neurophysiologic correlates, such as the N400 and the P600 in the ERPs. However, only a handful of studies have investigated the neural basis of the syntax-semantics interface, and even fewer experiments have dealt with the cases in which...

External Threat as Coercion

In coercive relations, threats of negative sanctions extract valued positive sanctions from coercees. Only when coercion is direct, however, are the negative sanctions controlled by the coercer who benefits from the threats. Not previously investigated, indirect coercion relies on threats and negative sanctions that are external to the exploitative relation. We suggest that indirect coercion is...