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Publication details [#31390]

Groefsema, Marjolein. 1995. Understood arguments: A semantic/pragmatic approach. Lingua 96 (2-3) : 139–161.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

argument | interpretation | pragmatic function | semantic function | verb

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0024-3841

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper argues for a semantic/pragmatic explanation of when arguments occurring with certain verbs can be left implicit: they can only be left implicit if their interpretation is constrained in particular ways.