Implicit arguments in situation semantics

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 May 1988 English Publisher:Springer Science and Business Media LLCJournal:Linguistics and Philosophy, volume 11, pages 169-201 (issn: 0165-0157, eissn: 1573-0549,

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Authors: Larson, Richard K.;

doi: 10.1007/bf00632460

Implicit arguments in situation semantics

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Abstract

The paper starts with an ill-defined grammatical distinction between ``arguments'' and ``adjuncts'', opposing both to ``implicit arguments''. These are not defined at all, though examples make it patent that what is meant are adverbial phrases like ``by Felix'' in the sentence ``John was seen by Felix''. We learn that ``rather they are phrases licensed by a form of extra-grammatical `inference' involving knowledge about events and the relationships holding among them''. And the paper goes on in this ``rather''-way for 30 pages, coded in muddy symbolism.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Keywords

situation semantics, adverbial phrases, Logic of natural languages

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