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Yamanashi, Masa-aki. 1972. Lexical decomposition and implied proposition. Papers from the Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society 8 : 388–401.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

implicit meaning | lexical decomposition | predicate | proposition | verb

Annotation

Y. expresses the belief that with the help of the lexical decomposition of surface verbs, it is possible to make a more significant generalization about the semantics of sentential predicates than the one made in L. Karttunen (1970: 'On the semantics of complement sentences').