Lexical pragmatics and unification : The semantics of German causal 'durch' ('through')

Research on Language and Computation

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 481-502

  Solstad, Torgrim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adverbial modification; Causation; Compositionality; Lexical semantics; Presupposition; Unification

Indexed keywords

EID: 35748955773     PISSN: 15707075     EISSN: 15728706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11168-007-9041-3     Document Type: Article

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