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