Minimal Semantics

Minimal Semantics

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 1-298

  Borg, Emma ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Context sensitivity; Contextualism; Demonstratives; Formal semantics; Modularity; Pragmatics; Relevance theory; Truth conditions; Unarticulated constituents

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921961748     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/0199270252.001.0001     Document Type: Book

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