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Morin, Yves-Charles and Michael H. O'Malley. 1969. Multi-rooted vines in semantic representation. Papers from the Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society 5 : 178–185.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English

Annotation

M. and O. argue that a single connected tree headed by a performative is not the best semantic representation for sentences with sentential predicates. Instead, multi-rooted vines (disconnected trees with indices) are proposed as an alternative structure. Such structures also appear to underlie presuppositions.