Non-exhaustive connectives

Abstract This paper provides the first cross-linguistic study on non-exhaustive connectives. After defining non-exhaustivity and briefly exploring range of linguistic strategies encoding it across languages, methodology underlying will be discussed. Based analysis 35 for which at least one connective was found, argued that connectives exhibit quite homogenous distributional properties derive from a restricted set recurrent diachronic sources. Speakers are indeed likely to mobilize i ) elements already or implying non-exhaustivity, ii expressing an epistemic condition uncertainty, iii exemplification.