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There are cases where a disjunction sentence reads like the corresponding conjunction sentence. It is called a Free Choice Effect(= FCE). Simons(2005), Klinedinst(2006) and Fox(2006) attempted to account for the effect, but they are not fully successful. In this paper, I employ the positive features of their analyses and avoid the problems with them. Simons's analysis implies that each disjunct makes a separate meaning contribution. No syntactic analyses like Klinedinst's or Fox's, which take FCEs as part of scalar implicatures, can account for FCEs. I claim that in a disjunction structure, each disjunct makes a separate meaning contribution to a quantifier which has wide scope over the disjunction structure. I call them implicatures of existence. The implicatures should in turn contribute to the meaning of the whole sentence

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Abstract
 1. Introduction
 2. Properties of FECs in Previous Analyses
  2.1. Simons(1998, 2005)
  2.2. Fox(2006)
  2.3. Klinedinst(2006)
 3. FCEs as implicatures of existence
 4. FCE: a non-syntactic phenomenon
 5. FCEs as meaning contributions of disjuncts
 6. FC Effects as a Global Phenomenon
 7. Conclusion
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• Jae-Il Yeom [ Hongik University ]

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