Against opacity

Research on Language and Computation

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 435-455

  Egg, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Constraints; Opacity; Scope; Structural ambiguity; Syntax semantics interface; Syntax semantics mismatches; Underspecification formalisms

Indexed keywords

EID: 35748967544     PISSN: 15707075     EISSN: 15728706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11168-007-9039-x     Document Type: Article

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