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The Influence of Context in Meaning: The Panorama of Complement Coercion

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Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT 2015)

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This work addresses the phenomenon of aspectual verbs cross-linguistically and the possibility for event-describing readings to arise from combinations with object-denoting complements

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    Though etymologically related the benden examples are not equivalent to English end for end is mainly unaccusative and otherwise requires a modifier, while German beenden is throughout transitive.

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This research has been supported by the SynSem research program at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Oslo.

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  1. Universitetet i Oslo, Niels Henrik Abels vei 36, 0313, Oslo, Norway

    Alexandra Anna Spalek

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark

    Henning Christiansen

  2. ENS-Pavillon Jardin, CNRS-Institut Jean-Nicod, Paris, France

    Isidora Stojanovic

  3. Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus, Aglantzia, Cyprus

    George A. Papadopoulos

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Spalek, A.A. (2015). The Influence of Context in Meaning: The Panorama of Complement Coercion. In: Christiansen, H., Stojanovic, I., Papadopoulos, G. (eds) Modeling and Using Context. CONTEXT 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9405. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25591-0_43

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