When roots license and when they respect semantico-syntactic structure in verbs
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In this paper I will investigate the contribution of roots to the syntactic and semantic properties of verbs. From the point of view of a formal semanticist ∗This work developed from joint work with the members of the projects B4 and of the long-term research-project Incremental Specification in Context, funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. I wish to thank an anonymous reviewer, Boris Haselbach, Hans Kamp, Florian Schäfer, Sylvia Springorum and other members of the SFB.
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