The Semantics of Implicitly Relational Predicates

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dc.contributor.authorMcCloy, Daniel Robert
dc.date.accessioned2014-01-27T21:31:18Z
dc.date.available2014-01-27T21:31:18Z
dc.date.issued2014-01-27
dc.description.abstractThis thesis offers a semantic account of implicitly relational predicates — adjectival or nominal predicates such as to be popular and to be a wanted man. Implicitly relational predicates are characterized by unique entailment properties when combined with locatives (and other PPs headed by words like with and among). It is argued that implicitly relational predicates take PPs as arguments via functional application, rather than as adjuncts via predicate modification, and a formal account of that interaction is presented.en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1773/24799
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.rightsCopyright is held by the individual authors.en_US
dc.titleThe Semantics of Implicitly Relational Predicatesen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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