"Either" as a Focus Particle

摘要: Many analyses of initial coordination are based on the view that elements like either, both and neither conjunctions. Such a view, however, leaves many questions unanswered with respect to prosodic syntactic structure these constructions their interpretation. This study argues English either its Dutch counterpart focus particles rather than not only accounts for relatively free distribution but also explains restrictions posed possible surface positions by intonation. In addition, scopal effects have been observed in either-or can be explained. The behavior disjunctions thus suggests complex interaction between syntactic, discourse-semantic information process sentence generation.