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• Katz-Fodor-semantics
  ...d sentences. Semantic representations are concepts which are built up from semantic primitives. * Katz, J.J. and J.A. Fodor 1963. ''The structure of a Semantic Theory,'' Language 39, 170-210, .
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• Semantic function
  ...Grammar]] (e.g. Dik 1989), the term '''semantic function''' is used for [[semantic role]]s. *[[semantic role]]
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• Kāraka
  ...works refer to Panini's ''kāraka'' concept as an early precursor of modern semantic roles. *[[semantic role]]
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• Deep case
  The term '''deep case''' denotes a [[semantic role]] and is used especially in work influenced by Fillmore (1968). *[[semantic role]]
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• Thematic role
  The term '''thematic role''' is a synonym of [[semantic role]] or [[thematic relation]], popularized by Chomsky (1981), although mo Thematic roles are semantic roles in a system which takes location and movement through space as (some
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• Case role
  The term '''case role''' denotes a [[semantic role]] and is used especially in work influenced by Fillmore (1968). *[[semantic role]]
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• Extended Standard Theory
  ...resentation, the introduction of [[Move alpha]], [[trace theory]], and the theory of [[LF]]. The EST originates in Chomsky (1973).
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• Case relation
  The term '''case relation''' denotes a [[semantic role]] and is used especially in work influenced by Fillmore (1968). *[[semantic role]]
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• Meaning theories
  ...s about the nature of [[meaning]] and the proper formulation of a semantic theory. There are roughly three theories about meaning: # the denotational theory
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• Thematic relation
  ...sed (especially in Ray Jackendoff’s work and work influenced by him) for [[semantic role]]. *[[semantic role]]
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• Interpretive rules
  ...tive rules''' is a rules that interpret syntactic structures in terms of a semantic representation or in terms of truth and reference. In a strictly [[composit * Jackendoff, R. 1972. ''Semantic interpretation in generative grammar,'' MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.
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• Semantic representation
  '''Semantic representation''' is an abstract [[formal language|(formal) language]] in w ...e identified with syntactic deep structures. In almost all other theories, semantic representations are an autonomous level of representation related to deep s
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• Dative (semantic role)
  The term '''dative''' was used, following Fillmore (1968:24-25), for the [[semantic role]] of an animate being that is conscious of being [[affected]] by the s ...case. In: Bach, Emmon & Harms, Robert T. (eds.) ''Universals in linguistic theory.'' New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1-88.
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• Lexical semantics
  ...], and a theory using [[meaning postulate]]s. Traditional problems concern semantic relations between words (like [[homonymy]], [[synonymy]], [[hyperonymy]], a * Jackendoff, R. 1990. ''Semantic Structures,'' Cambridge, MIT-Press.
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• Katz-Postal-principle
  ...iple''' is the principle, argued for in Katz & Postal (1964), that all semantic interpretation applies to [[deep-structure]], before the application of tra * Katz,.J.J. and P.Postal 1964. ''An Intergrated Theory of Linguistic Description,'' The MIT Press: Cambridge, Mass.
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• Priming
  ...be exemplified by the word 'cat' priming the word 'dog' (cf. [[crossmodal semantic priming]]). * Collins, A.M & Loftus, E.F. 1975. ''A spreading activation theory of semantic processing,'' Psychological Review, 82, 407-428
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• Expletive noun phrase
  ...[[pronoun]]-like element) that occupies a syntactic position, but has no [[semantic role]]. '''Expletive''' is a grammatical element having no semantic content and occurring in [[theta-bar position]]s.
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• Generalized Quantifier Theory
  ...ich studies the interpretation of noun phrases and determiners. The formal theory of generalized quantifiers already existed as a part of mathematical logic [http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Generalized+Quantifier+Theory&lemmacode=718 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]
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• Portal:Psycholinguistics
  ...[specific language impairment]], [[surface dyslexia]], [[verbal efficiency theory]], [[williams syndrome]], [[global aphasia]] ...a]], [[assembled route]], [[bigram frequency]], [[construction-integration theory]], [[deep dyslexia]], [[dual-route model]], [[fixations]]
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• Source
  '''Source''' is a one of the possible [[semantic role]]s of a [[verb]], indicating the place or object where the movement ex ...e for Case,'' in: E. Bach & R.T. Harms (eds.) Universals In Linguistic Theory, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York.
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• Argument structure
  ...on about the [[argument]]s of a (generally verbal) [[predicate]] and their semantic and syntactic properties. ...-role]] structure and [[syntactic function|syntactic-function]] structure. Semantic roles have a lot of information that is not (or hardly) relevant for the sy
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• Selectional restrictions
  '''Selectional restrictions''' are the [[semantic restrictions]] that a [[word]] imposes on the environment in which it occur * Chomsky, N. 1965. ''Aspects of the Theory of Syntax,'' MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
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• Thematic theory
  ...uments in syntactic structure. Thematic interpretation is only part of the semantic interpretation of natural language sentences, which also encompasses quanti *[http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Thematic+theory&lemmacode=152 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]
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• Serialization (i.e. word order)
  *Bartsch, Renate & [[Vennemann, Theo]]. 1972. ''Semantic Structures.'' Frankfurt: Athenäum. ...s.) ''Lexical specification and insertion.'' (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 197). Amsterdam: Benjamins, 135-164.
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• Logical semantics
  ...mantics]]. [[Montague Grammar]] is the most detailed example of a semantic theory for natural language based on the principles of logical semantics.
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• Suppletion
  '''Suppletion''' is a phenomenon by which the addition of a semantic aspect or grammatical function is expressed by a totally or partially diffe * Spencer, A. 1991. ''Morphological Theory,'' Blackwell, Oxford.
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• Argument linking
  ...used for generalizations about the [[mapping]] between (decompositional) [[semantic structure]]s of [[predicate]]s and the [[syntactic expression]] of the [[ar *[[Nicholas Ostler]]. 1979. ''Case linking: A theory of case and verb diathesis, applied to Classical Sanskrit.'' Ph.D. disserta
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• Endocentric compound
  ...sage restricted, so that ''steamboat'' will be found in basically the same semantic contexts as the noun ''boat''. The compound also retains the primary syntac * Spencer, A. 1991. ''Morphological Theory,'' Blackwell, Oxford.
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• No Vacuous Application Principle
  ...(= cannot take a direct object) and [-logical subject] (= do not assign a semantic role to an external argument). * Spencer, A. 1991. ''Morphological Theory,'' Blackwell, Oxford.
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• Goal
  ...e for Case,'' in: E. Bach & R.T. Harms (eds.) Universals In Linguistic Theory, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York. [[Category:Syntax]][[Category:Semantic role]]
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• Conceptual Structure
  ...aborates the idea that notions of location and movement are central in the semantic analysis of [[verb]]s and [[sentence]]s, see [[localism]]). [[Lexical conce
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• Covert category
  A '''covert category''' is a semantic distinction that is relevant for the morphosyntactic rules of a language, b ...or case.'' In: Bach, Emmon & Harms, R.T. (eds.) ''Universals in linguistic theory.'' New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1-88.
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• Jerrold J. Katz (de)
  ...n dazugehörigen philosophischen Aspekten. Seine Veröffentlichung "Semantic Theory" (Harper & Row, 1972) hatte großen Einfluss auf die Philosophie, Linguisti
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• Affected vs. effected object
  A relatively old semantic-role distinction is that between '''affected objects''', i.e. [[patient]]s ...or case.'' In: Bach, Emmon & Harms, R.T. (eds.) ''Universals in linguistic theory.'' New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1-88.
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• Bracketing paradox
  ...the morphological structure of a word which one would like to propose for semantic reasons does not correspond to the structure one would like to propose for ...es on the basis of level-ordering which are sometimes in conflict with the semantic structure.
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• Theta-role
  '''Theta-role''' is the semantic relationship of an [[argument]] with the predicate it is an argument of is *[[Theta-theory]]
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• Semantic coherence
  '''Semantic coherence''' is a notion introduced in Aronoff (1976) which entails that th [http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Semantic+Coherence&lemmacode=212 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]
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• Minimalist Program
  It aims to eliminate from linguistic theory anything which is not 'virtually necessary'. For instance, in Chomsky (1992 * a set of (phonological, semantic, and grammatical) features
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• Kontrolle
  *A. Cormack & N. Smith, Compositionality, Copy Theory, and Control. UCLWPL 2002/14. *– Dies., The Semantic Basis of Control. Lg. 2003/79.3, 517–556.
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• Determiner
  * Keenan, E.L. and J. Stavi 1986. ''A semantic characterization of natural language determiners,'' Linguistics and Philoso a relation between two sets taken as the denotation of a determiner in the theory of [[Generalized Quantifier]]s.
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• Properness
  ...roperness''' is a semantic property of [[NP]]s in [[Generalized Quantifier Theory]]. An NP is interpreted in a model M as a proper [[generalized quantifier]]
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• Donkey anaphora
  ...on as donkey antecedents, has been implemented in Discourse Representation Theory (Kamp 1981, Heim 1982). Other well-known donkey-contexts are conditional cl * Kamp, H. 1981. ''A theory of truth and semantic representation,'' in: J. Groenendijk et al. (eds.) (1984) Truth, Interpreta
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• Reduplication
  ...s not any kind of repetition of phonological material. The function can be semantic (intensity, plurality, etc) or grammatical (agreement with subject, aspect, * Broselow, J. & J. McCarthy 1983. ''A Theory of Internal Reduplication,'' The Linguistic Review 3, pp. 25-88
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• Portal:Semantics
  '''Semantic metalanguage'''<br> == '''<div style="font-size:80%;">Major approaches to semantic analysis</div>''' ==
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• Theme (semantic role)
  ...e for Case,'' in: E. Bach &amp; R.T. Harms (eds.) Universals In Linguistic Theory, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York. * Jackendoff, R. 1990. ''Semantic Structures,'' Cambridge, MIT-Press.
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• Interpretative Semantik
  *R. S. Jackendoff, Semantic Interpretation in Generative Grammar. N. Y. 1972. *J. J. Katz, Semantic Theory. N. Y. 1972.
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• Conversion
  ...ke solid', ''legal-ize'' 'make legal'. But we also find [[verb]]s of this (semantic) type which are phonologically identical to the base adjective: ''to clean' *Lieber, R. 1981. Morphological Conversion within a Restricted Theory of the Lexicon. In ''The Scope of Lexical Rules.'' Moortgat et al. (eds.),
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• Cohort model
  In phonetics, a '''cohort model''' is a theory of auditory word recognition. ...al nodes contain information about the [[phoneme]]s in a word, whereas the semantic nodes contain information about the [[meaning]] of the words. The speech in
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• Case
  ...cal category system]] marked on [[noun phrase]]s to indicate the syntactic-semantic relationship between the noun phrases and other elements in the clause. Cas ...inflectional [[dimension]] of nouns that serves to code the noun phrase's semantic role.”'' (Haspelmath 2002:267)
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• Tarski's truth definition
  Tarski's truth definition is crucial to a denotational [[meaning theory]]. * Tarski, A. 1944. ''The Semantic Conception of Truth,'' Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 4, 341-375
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• EST (de)
  Englisch [[Extended Standard Theory]] <br> *[[Chomsky, N.]] 1965. ''Aspects of the Theory of Syntax.''(Aspekte der Syntax-Theorie.1968. Übersetzt v. E. Lang. Frankf
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• Lexicon
  ...preceding one is the position of the (lexical) phonological rules. In the theory of Lexical Morphology/Phonology the derived form [[opaque] ity] is changed * Halle, M. 1973. ''Prolegomena to a Theory of Word-Formation,'' Linguistic Inquiry 4, pp. 451-464
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• Lexicalist Hypothesis
  * Jackendoff, R. 1972. ''Semantic interpretation in generative grammar,'' MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. * Spencer, A. 1991. ''Morphological Theory,'' Blackwell, Oxford.
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• Stratum (in neurocognitive linguistics)
  ...eneral theme of three major systems, phonological, lexico-grammatical, and semantic-conceptual. Relations between strata are called [[realization|realization
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• Antonymy
  * Kempson, R.M. 1977.'' Semantic theory.'' Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
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• Main Page
  ...nator]], [[subcomparative construction]], [[syntactic function]], [[X-bar theory]], [[Θ-role]] ...ice]], [[coda]], [[compensatory lengthening]], [[Contrastive Specification Theory]], [[dactyl]], [[declarative phonology]], [[degenerate foot]], [[dependency
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• Derivation (morphology)
  ...is characterized by relatively concrete morphological meanings, potential semantic irregularity, restrictions in applicability, and so on. It contrasts with [ * Halle, M. 1973. ''Prolegomena to a Theory of Word-Formation,'' Linguistic Inquiry 4, pp. 451-464
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• Type logic
  ...mbination with lambda-abstraction, type logic is a very powerful logic for semantic representation. It has been fruitfully applied in [[Montague Grammar]].
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• Agens (Überblick)
  ...ot be taken as definitive but rather as introducing the most commonly used semantic roles."'' (Van Valin, Robert D. (2001). ''An introduction to syntax.'' New *[[Semantic function]]
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• Weak crossover
  ...[Condition C]] violation as in the case of [[strong crossover]]. [[Binding theory]] has nothing to say on the possibility of coreference between ''who'' and * Reinhart, T. 1983. ''Anaphora and Semantic Interpretation,'' Croom Helm:London.
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• Lexical Functional Grammar
  ...l linguistics, a variety of [[generative grammar]]. The development of the theory was initiated by [[Joan Bresnan]] and [[Ronald Kaplan]] in the 1970s, in re semantic structure ([[s-structure]])
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• Complement
  ...where H is a [[head]] and H' the [[projection]] of H. According to [[X-bar theory]], the complement of a [[head]] X⁰ is defined either as a positi * a syntactic position in the X-bar schema (see [[complement (in X-bar theory)]]).
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• Bohumil Trnka
  ...ology, as well as to other levels (plans, subsys-tems) of language, to the theory of the linguistic sign, to the historical evolution of language, etc. is we ...ogrammatic integration of quantitative studies in the Prague structuralist theory of language. He believed in the existence of general quantitative laws whic
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• Negative polarity item
  ...elated contexts such as questions and [[conditional clause]]s although its semantic properties would seem to allow occurrence in positive contexts as well. *Jackendoff, Ray. 1969. An interpretive theory of negation. ''Foundations of Language'' 5:218-241.
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• Linguistic information system
  ...f rules, nor that it has a form prescribed by some pre-existing linguistic theory, and certainly not that it is genetically determined by a language gene. ...endent from the processes which use it, such as that for converting from a semantic representation to speech. This type of independence is essential for a rea
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• Imperativ
  *– Dies., A Semantic Map for Imperative-Hortatives. In: D. Willems et al. (Hg.), Points of Compa ...K. Watanabe & R. *B. Young (Hg.), Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory. Ithaca , N. Y. 2004/14.
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• Satzmodus
  ...ructure and Illocutionary Force. In: J. R. Searle et al. (Hg.), Speech Act Theory and Pragmatic. Dordrecht 1980, 1-35. *B. Clark, Relevance Theory and the Semantics of Non-Declaratives. Diss. Middlesex Univ. London 1991.
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• James D. McCawley/publications
  *1966b. Review of W. Cooper, Set theory and syntactic description. Foundations of Language 2.408-10. ...entice Hall, 1970), 514-33. German translation appears in F. Kiefer (ed.), Semantic und generative Grammatik (Frankfurt, Athenäum, 1972),
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• Coherence
  ...he syntactic-semantic relations between sentences (cohesion) and the logic-semantic relations established between propositions making up the thematic structure ...till perceive coherence in a sequence of clauses and sentences even if the semantic and syntactic ties connecting them are missing. On the other hand, even if
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• Tenses of English
  ...mber of tenses [...] in English, which vary according to whether formal or semantic criteria or a combination of both are recognized. In particular, the presen ...' has lost both morphological substance (it may be reduced to '''ll'') and semantic substance (since it no longer solely expresses volition, is no longer restr
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• Ambiguity, Polysemy and Vagueness
  ...a “form a gradient between total semantic identity” (vagueness) “and total semantic distinctness” (p. 327) (ambiguity). Therefore, polysemy is a case somewhe Spencer, Andrew. 1991. ''Morphological Theory: An Introduction to Word Structure in Generative Grammar''. Oxford: Blackwe
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• Lexikalisches Entscheiden
  ....pdf Collins, A. M. & Loftus, E. F. 1975. A spreading-activation theory of semantic processing. In: ''Psychological Review, 82,'' 407-428.]
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• Wincenty Lutosławski
  ...douin de Courtenay 1927 [1990]: 549). His concept principally involves the semantic, syntactic, and morphologic representation of the number, dimensions, and i *Herdan G.. 1966. ''The Advanced Theory of Language as Choice and Chance.'' Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer
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• Tsez
  ...animate object belongs. However, there are certain tendencies based on the semantic field of the nouns. Nouns that are able to move (like sun, moon, star, ligh ...takes the absolutive case. The recipient's case depends on the [[semantics|semantic]] nature of the transfer of possession or information: if it's a permanent
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• Intransitivita' scissa
  Rosen C 1984: “The Interface between Semantic Roles and Initial Grammatical Relations”, in Perlmutter & Rosen (1984). ...jectives and the Lexicalist Hypothesis”, ''Natural Language and Linguistic Theory'', '''8'''.
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