Argument or no argument?

Linguistics and Philosophy

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 277-287

  Pullum, Geoffrey K ^a   Rawlins, Kyle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational linguistics; Context freeness; Conventional implicature; Corpus linguistics; English; Expressive epithets; Formal language theory; Linguistic engineering; Reduplication; Semantics; Syntax

Indexed keywords

EID: 36148994730     PISSN: 01650157     EISSN: 15730549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10988-007-9013-y     Document Type: Article

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