We explore the semantics of conjunction using a neo-Davidsonian semantics expressed in a synchronous grammar. We propose to model conjunction as quantification over the set of conjoined entities, and discuss problems that arise in this approach when we have conjoined quantified noun phrases.

Conjoined twins are twins whose bodies are anatomically joined in utero. The degree to which the twins are attached can range from simple, involving skin and cartilage, to complex, including fusion of the skull(s), brain(s), or other vital organs. There are more than a dozen classifications of conjoined twins [3] but what they all tend to have in common is the sharing of the chorion [4], placen...

In a recent decision of the Indian Supreme Court, judges foreshadowed authorising separation of teenage conjoined twins where both would die if not separated but where the operation could save only one. The absence of medical information advising separation precluded such a decision in the case at hand. However, the case raises a number of difficult legal and ethical questions that judges would...

Objective: Conjoined twins are identical twins with congenital anomaly and severe mortality. The more common types include the thoraco-omphalopagus, fused at chest, and thoracopagus type, fused from the upper thorax to lower belly, at the chest. Here we are reporting one case of thoracopagus conjoined twins diagnosed by sonography. A 23-year-old woman with gravida 1 admitted to our clinic was d...

The last few decades have shown that analytical chemistry and environmental chemistry are “conjoined twins”. Neither can move significantly forward without the contribution and support of the other discipline. But in their conjoined development both disciplines have contributed much to our knowledge of environmental pollution, to the understanding of environmental processes, and to the developm...

English grammars indicate a variety of relations holding between conjoined VPs. VPs conjoined by and evince such senses as Result, Temporal Sequence and Concession. Although all these senses are ones associated with discourse relations, conjoined VPs have not been fully included in discourse annotation. Because of the value of discourse-annotated corpora for developing approaches to automated s...