Argument or no argument?
We examine an argument for the non-context-freeness of English that has received virtually no discussion in the literature. It is based on adjuncts of the form ‘X or no X’, where X is a nominal. The construction has been held to exemplify unbounded syntactic reduplication. We argue that although the...
| Published in: | Linguistics & Philosophy Vol. 30; no. 2; pp. 277 - 288 |
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| Format: | Article |
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Springer Nature
Apr2007
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