Dividing Things Up: The semantics of or and the modal/or interaction
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To bear in mind: There are MANY environments in which or gives rise to nondisjunctive readings: (5) Jane is taller than Bill or Sue. (6) The book is available in English or Spanish. (7) I want to go to a concert or an opera. (8) If you fly to Australia or Japan you’ll earn lots of frequent flyer miles. (Thanks to Carlos Fasola for examples.) The puzzles (i) Semantics: non-disjunctive reading of may/or sentences cannot be derived given standard semantics for modals and for or. (ii) Syntax/semantics interface: How do we get non-disjunctive readings for wide or sentences? How do we get disjunctive readings of narrow or sentences?
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