Ambiguity under Changing Contexts
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Notions of disambiguation supporting a compositional interpretation of ambiguous expressions and reeecting intuitions about how sentences combine in discourse are investigated. Expressions are analyzed both inductively by breaking them apart, and co-inductively by embedding them within larger contexts.
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