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Publication details [#53017]

Ziegeler, Debra. 2010. Running the gauntlet on the approximatives debate: A response to recent challenges. Journal of Pragmatics 42 (3) : 681–704.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

adverbial | approximate description | classifier | semantics1

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

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Annotation

This paper reviews some of the current explanations, replies to recent challenges concerning the methodology deployed in earlier research, and offers new insights from historical usage as to the semantic classification of approximative adverbs.