Against Lexical Decomposition in Syntax

Gerhard Jäger · Reinhard Blutner

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Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation linguistics and terminology studies Categorization, perception, and language

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This article is concerned with the ambiguity that arises if a resultative predicate is modified by the adverb again. Intuitively, the semantics of the adverb either operates on the event type expressed by the main predicate, or on its result state type. This effect is illustrated in (1):

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