International Workshop in Natural Language and in Lexical Knowledge Bases Building up the meaning of problematic "verb+complements" constructions : The co-specification device
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In this paper, we will work on some problematic verbal phrases in order to shed light on the manner in which "the co-specification device" takes into account different sources of information (syntactic, lexical and other sources) to generate a composite meaning. To describe the particular aspects of such a device, we will make use of perspective notions concerning the internal organization of argument structures.
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