Quantifiers and verb phrases: An exploration of propositional complexity

Natural Language and Linguistic Theory

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 447-483

  Bale, Alan Clinton ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adverbial modifiers; Functional arguments; Presupposition; Propositional complexity; Quantifiers; VP structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 36549037126     PISSN: 0167806X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11049-007-9019-8     Document Type: Article

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