Temporal anaphora across and inside sentences: The function of participles

The paper offers a formal account of the discourse behaviour of participles, which to some extent behave like main clauses in having semantically undetermined relations to their matrix clause, but which should nevertheless be integrated into the compositional semantics of complex sentences. The theo...

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Main Authors: Corien Bary, Dag Trygve Truslew Haug
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Linguistic Society of America 2011-12-01
Series:Semantics and Pragmatics
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Online Access:http://semprag.org/article/view/1562