And/or: About the complicated meaning of ‘simple’ coordinators
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Coordinators (and, or) are very simple words, but they can mean very different things. This paper starts with the introduction of boolean semantics as a foundation for writing down the meaning of coordinators. Then two problems will be discussed to show that the combined parts still have a lot of influence in the meaning of the coordinated structure:
- difference between intensional and extensional verb phrases;
- conjunction within the determiner phrase
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coordinators, coordination, boolean semantics, semantics, syntax, and, or, intensional verbs, extensional verbs, determiner phrase, DP