Free Adjuncts In Natural Language Instructions
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ABSTll.ACT In thi,~ paper, we give a brief account of our project Animation from Instructions, the view of instructions it reflects, and the semantics of one construction-the free adjunct-that is common in Natural Language instructions.
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تاریخ انتشار 1990