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Implicit arguments in English double object constructions
Pesetsky (
1995 ) argued that both objects in the double object construction must be selected arguments of the lexical verb, based on patterns of...
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Lewis Carroll’s regress and the presuppositional structure of arguments
This essay develops and defends a diagnosis of Carroll’s (Mind 4(14):278–280, 1895) regress of the premises according to which the moral of the...
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Implicit Nazi Comparisons Through Omissions
In the first part of this chapter, the author gives an overview of the various groups of implicit Nazi comparisons. These can occur through omissions...
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Implicit Empire Comparisons
In this chapter the author cites implicit Empire comparisons in which perpetrator and/or victim concepts are verbalised partially and/or in an...
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Not all arguments are processed equally: a distributional model of argument complexity
This work addresses some questions about language processing: what does it mean that natural language sentences are semantically complex? What...
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Middle voice as generalized argument suppression
Middle voice verbs contrast with transitive active verbs in showing detransitivization. However, they also constitute a heterogeneous set...
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Fear Appeal Arguments
Many arguments in medicine and health appeal to the emotion of fear to gain acceptance of a claim or thesis. The health warning on a cigarette...
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Slippery Slope Arguments
Of all the informal fallacies used in medicine and health, none is more prominent than the slippery slope argument. Issues such as the legalization...
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Arguments from Analogy
Analogies represent an important efficiency in our thinking. When a new phenomenon (A) is encountered, it can be immediately mapped onto a...
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Domain restriction: the problem of the variable location revisited
Two theories of implicit domain restriction have gained considerable prominence over the last two decades. According to von Fintel (Restrictions on...
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Categorial selection and functional structure in the noun phrase: revisiting Russian small nominals
Given the well-attested selectional asymmetries between clauses and nominals, selection-based empirical arguments for the projection of functional...
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The Acquisition of Implicit Control in European Portuguese
FewImplicit control studiesEuropean Portuguese have assessed children’s comprehensionComprehension of the null infinitival subject (PRO) in...
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Is degree abstraction a parameter or a universal? Evidence from Mandarin Chinese
Mandarin Chinese, along with Japanese, Yorùbá, Mòoré, and Samoan, has been argued to lack ‘degree abstraction’, a configuration at LF involving...
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Kee** context in mind: a non-semantic explanation of apparent context-sensitivity
Arguments for context-sensitivity are often based on judgments about the truth values of sentences: a sentence seems true in one context and false in...
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Personal-evaluation secondary predicates in Japanese and quirky experiencer raising
Adjectives in Japanese that describe personal evaluation of their theme argument like omosiroi ‘interesting’ and oisii ‘tasty’ can occur as secondary...
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Root participles: directive, commissive, expressive and representative participles in Germanic root configurations
The present paper investigates participial root configurations, i.e. participial clauses that are grammatically independent of a host clause. Unlike...
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Agentless presuppositions and the semantics of verbal roots
Bale (
2007 ) proposes that agentive intransitives differ semantically from agentive transitives, in that while the agent of a transitive is introduced...
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Syntax and semantics of NPs in Chinese possessive topic constructions
A systematic evaluation of syntactic behavior of nouns that take as their possessor the topic of the possessive topic constructions in Mandarin...
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On the difference between the ‘In’ and ‘According to’ operators
Semanticists and philosophers of fiction that formulate analyses of reports on the content of media—or ‘contensive statements’—of the form...
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The order of operations and A/Ā interactions
Double object constructions provide an ideal context in which to investigate interactions between multiple instances of movement. With two internal...
