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dc.contributorDepartment of English-
dc.creatorNartey, M-
dc.date.accessioned2018-04-24T01:42:59Z-
dc.date.available2018-04-24T01:42:59Z-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10397/75465-
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherMDPI AGen_US
dc.rights© 2018 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).en_US
dc.subjectCoordinating connectiveen_US
dc.subjectConjuncten_US
dc.subjectEnrichmenten_US
dc.subjecten_US
dc.subjectInferenceen_US
dc.titleClausal coordination in Gã : the case of nì †en_US
dc.typeJournal/Magazine Articleen_US
dc.identifier.spage1en_US
dc.identifier.epage13en_US
dc.identifier.volume3en_US
dc.identifier.issue3en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/languages3010003en_US
dcterms.abstractThis paper analyses the communicative functions of the Gã (Niger–Congo, Kwa branch) clausal connective nì, roughly corresponding to English ‘and’, drawing on Wilson and Sperber’s (1995; 2004) relevance theory. The study demonstrates that nì is a conjunction that achieves optimal relevance when the nì-utterance has cognitive effects that transcend those of the individual conjuncts of nì. Importantly, the use of nì leads the way in providing clues that aid the interlocutor to “work out” the nature of the inferential relation between the conjuncts. These inferential relations, including addition, temporality, causality, contrast and parallelism, ultimately enable the interlocutor to arrive at the desired and/or intended interpretation of the utterance as a whole. This paper is, thus, an attempt to account for the meaning of nì as well as the pragmatic processes that inform the specific inferential relations between the nì-conjuncts. It also illumines the ways in which pragmatic enrichment and context-dependent inference can strengthen the logical form of clausal coordination in Gã.-
dcterms.accessRightsopen accessen_US
dcterms.bibliographicCitationLanguages, 2018, v. 3, no. 3, p. 1-13-
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dcterms.issued2018-
dc.identifier.eissn2226-471Xen_US
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dc.description.pubStatusPublisheden_US
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