Abstract
In the introduction to Chapter 4, I observed that (1) and (2) receive the same ‘concessive’ interpretation as (3):
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(1)
Peter went out although it was raining.
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(2)
Although it was raining, Peter went out.
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(3)
It was raining but Peter went out.
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Iten, C. (2005). Concession and Denial: The Meaning of although. In: Linguistic Meaning, Truth Conditions and Relevance. Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230503236_5
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