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Atomicity of Some Categorially Polyvalent Modifiers

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Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics (LACL 2001)

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Some arguments are given to show that the particle only, considered as a categorially polyvalent modifier, denotes atoms of the corresponding denotational Boolean algebras. This fact explains its relatively constant meaning in all expressions with various categories in which it can occur. Some other consequences of this fact are discussed.

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  1. Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle, CNRS and Universite Paris 7, France

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  1. INRIA Lorraine, 615 rue du Jardin Botanique, B.P. 101, 54602, Villers-lès-Nancy Cedex, France

    Philippe de Groote

  2. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Jordi Girona Salgado, 1-3, 08028, Barcelona, Spain

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  3. Faculté des Sciences, Institut de recherche en Informatique de Nantes (IRIN), 2, rue de la Houssinière, B.P. 92208, 44322, Nantes Cedex 03, France

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Zuber, R. (2001). Atomicity of Some Categorially Polyvalent Modifiers. In: de Groote, P., Morrill, G., Retoré, C. (eds) Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics. LACL 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2099. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48199-0_18

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