| Linking and Modal Transparency (2007) | |||||||||||||||
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| Linking or mapping theories are theories of the correspondence between semantic arguments and syntactic functions. This paper examines cases in which entailmentbased theories of linking apparently fail, and argues that they can be maintained once we abstract away from sublexical modality in lexical semantic representations. Linking constraints are hypothesized to be insensitive to the sublexical modality component of lexical entries, and depend only on information in a predicator's \situational core". By separating these two distinct types of semantic information in lexical semantic representations, the elegance of entailment-based theories of linking is preserved. 1 | |||||||||||||||
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