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Underspecification, Context Selection and Generativity  (Make Corrections)  
Jacques Jayez



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Abstract: The idea that semantic representations are underspecified, that is more abstract than the specific interpretations obtained in various contexts, is by now current in lexical semantics. However, the way in which underspecified representations give rise to more precise interpretations in particular contexts is not always clear. On one view, context provides missing information, for instance because it contains salient entities which can be referred to. I consider here the symmetric dependency, in ... (Update)

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@misc{ jayez-underspecification,
  author = "Jacques Jayez",
  title = "Underspecification, Context Selection and Generativity",
  url = "citeseer.ist.psu.edu/403112.html" }
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