Underspecification and NP Coordination in Constraint-based Grammar
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This paper presents a uniform semantic underspecification account of conjunctive NP coordination phenomena, with particular focus on scope and plural ambiguities. We propose a compositional and constraint-based approach for processing pluralities within an integrated UDRT (Reyle, 1993) and HPSG (Pollard and Sag, 1994) framework, with the goal of capturing complex semantic interactions that can arise in such structures.
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تاریخ انتشار 2005