What is a relational proposition?

Definition
	A relational proposition is a proposition that
	arises as an implicature between two propositions or groups of propositions that are related by an interpropositional relation expresses a relation arises even where the relation is not signaled in the text, as by a conjunction, and produces coherence in the text.

Example (English)

I’m hungry. Let’s go to the Fuji Gardens.

There is a relational proposition in this sequence that expresses a solutionhood relation and means "our going to Fuji Gardens is a (partial) solution to my problem of being hungry."

Source:

Mann and Thompson 1983 10

Generic
	A relational proposition is a kind of
	What is a proposition?

Sources
	Mann and Thompson 1986 7–9
	Mann and Thompson 1985 1–3
	Mann and Thompson 1983 9–13, 16–17

Context for this page:

Concept module: relational proposition
In overview module: Glossary (Linguistics): R
In modular book: Glossary of linguistic terms, by Eugene E. Loos (general editor), Susan Anderson (editor), Dwight H., Day, Jr. (editor), Paul C. Jordan (editor), and J. Douglas Wingate (editor)
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