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April 12, 2026Journal of PragmaticsOpen Access

Separative conjunction: Evidence from Japanese non-exhaustive connectives

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ABAlessandra BarottoUniversity of Insubria

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Analysis reveals how Japanese connectives affect semantics and highlight unique interpretations.

Key Points

  • The study investigates how Japanese non-exhaustive connectives function in exhaustive contexts, focusing on separative conjunction.
  • Qualitative analysis of natural occurrences from a web corpus
  • Examination of semantic relations in connectives ya, -tari, and toka
  • Analysis of how these connectives activate different interpretations
  • Japanese non-exhaustive connectives can encode separative conjunction
  • This reading allows for iterative and distributive interpretations
  • Aspectual inferences stem from the separative conjunction reading rather than intrinsic values of the connectives

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Alessandra Barotto (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69db36a04fe01fead37c4a3dhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2026.03.012
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