Semantic representations of syntactically marked discourse status in crosslinguistic perspective

Semantics in Text Processing, STEP 2008 - Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 17-29

  Bender, Emily M ^a   Goss Grubbs, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

SEMANTICS; SYNTACTICS;

EXISTENTIAL QUANTIFIERS; GRAMMATICAL CONSTRUCTION; HARMONISATION; LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS; MINIMAL RECURSION SEMANTICS; REFERRING EXPRESSIONS; SEMANTIC REPRESENTATION; SYNTACTIC ANALYSIS; SYNTAX-SEMANTICS INTERFACE;

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