@article{Smith_Kobayashi_2019, title={Alternating conj/disjunctions: the case of Japanese -toka and -tari}, volume={22}, url={https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/sub/index.php/sub/article/view/113}, abstractNote={This paper investigates the interpretation of Japanese -toka and -tari, two nonexhaustive particles that receive conjunctive interpretations in upward-entailing environments, but disjunctive interpretations in downward-entailing and question contexts. We analyze -toka and -tari as items that introduce unstructured sets of alternatives in a Hamblin-style alternative semantics (Hamblin, 1973; Kratzer and Shimoyama, 2002), and derive their conjunctive and disjunctive readings via an interaction between these sets and the semantics of the environment containing them.}, number={2}, journal={Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung}, author={Smith, Ryan Walter and Kobayashi, Ryoichiro}, year={2019}, month={May}, pages={393–406} }