The Parsing and Interpretation of Comparatives: More than Meets the Eye

This dissertation examines comparative constructions, both in terms of their representation in syntax and semantics and in terms of the way these representations are built and interpreted incrementally during sentence processing. While there has been extensive investigation of comparatives in the sy...

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Main Author: Grant, Margaret Ann
Format: Others
Published: ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst 2013
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Online Access:https://scholarworks.umass.edu/open_access_dissertations/689
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1695&context=open_access_dissertations