The Meaning of the Additive Too: Presupposition and Discourse Similarity
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This paper studies the general meaning of the additive particle too. It is argued that besides its well-known presuppositional content, too also conveys an information regarding the similarity of its host and the antecedent of its presupposition in the discourse. We couch our proposal in an argumentative framework. This proposal is then articulated with recent accounts of the obligatoriness of too.
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تاریخ انتشار 2009