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The semantics of grammatical transformations?

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Do nouns in simple apposition semantically unpack to predicate nominatives in English?

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Semantic category of [VERB] + as a + [NOUN]

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Difference between intonation and tonality?

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Allowed surface locations of [+wh] phrases apparently depend on semantics—if so, how and why?

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Do most semanticists maintain that there is a distinction between secondary agents and tools?

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What is the semantic term for the things that the single arguments of reflexive and reciprocal verbs stand for?

syntax semantics thematic-roles reflexive argument

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Can we build semantic mappings for CFG same as we do in CCG?

syntax semantics grammar-formalism formal-semantics

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How do I write the predicate logic notation for a proposition containing a plural argument?

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Are these examples of Broken English, Pidgin English, or something else entirely?

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Is it possible to construct a language that is not semantically ambiguous?

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Determining the semantic “complexity” of a grammar computationally from text

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The semantic type of and?

semantics formal-semantics type-theory

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