UCL Working Papers in Linguistics 12 (2000)
Although revisited
CORINNE ITEN
This paper offers an analysis of the meaning of although set within the
framework of Relevance Theory. In line with Iten (1998b), although is
seen as encoding procedural information that constrains the inferential
processes involved in the derivation of implicatures. However, the current
account differs from Iten (1998b) in several points. First, it suggests that
utterances of the form Q although P or Although P, Q encode a
single logical form that can be developed into a single proposition expressed.
Second, it proposes that the procedural meaning of although indicates
that the hearer is to suspend an inference.
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