Minimal Semantics and Word Sense Disambiguation.
Emma Borg has defined semantic minimalism as the thesis that the literal content of well-formed declarative sentences is truth-evaluable, fully determined by their lexico-syntactic features, and recoverable by language users with no need to access non-linguistic information. The task of this article...
| Published in: | Disputatio: International Journal of Philosophy Vol. 6; no. 39; pp. 147 - 172 |
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