A Compositional Semantics for Directional Modifiers - Locative Case Reopened
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This paper pre,'Jents a model-theoretic semantics for directional modifiers in English. The semantic theory presupposed for the analysis is that of Montague Grammar (cf. Montague 1970, 1973) which makes it possible to develop a strongly compositional treatment of directional modifiers, Such a treatment has significant computational advantages over case-based treatments of directional modifiers that are advocated in the A! literature.
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تاریخ انتشار 1986