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Unspecified Arguments in Episodic and Habitual Sentences

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Abstract The omissibility of unspecified objects is for many verbs subject to contextual factors. A relatively small number of verbs allow object drop freely in episodic sentences. Many more allow it in habitual sentences. This chapter argues that this is, in large part, connected to the fact that such sentences tend to have unquantized objects, and that the objects, if present, would be backgrounded.

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