Missing words and missing worlds

2023/12/01 by Mirrazi, Zahra, Zeijlstra, Hedde

paper · doi:10.18148/sub/2023.v27.1079

Abstract

In this paper, we discuss how a non-lexical account of neg-raising can be extended to explain a lexical gap in the domain of modals.

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