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Possessive Descriptions (Center for the Study of Language and Information - Lecture Notes)
Possessive Descriptions - Center for the Study of Language and Information - Lecture Notes Author:Chris Barker What do possessive noun phrases mean? Although possessives are one of the most commonly used construction types cross-linguistically, they have never received detailed or sustained study from a semantic point of view. Taking work of Abney, May, and Heim as a starting point, this book develops a comprehensive analysis of the contribution of posse... more »ssive NPs to the truth conditions of the sentences in which they occur.« less