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This chapter continues the development of the DRS construction procedure for various types of nominals. I look at some problematic nominals--the ACC-ing and POSS-ing nominals as well as the naked infinitive complements of perception reports. I will argue that all are instances of an IP syntactic construction; this syntactic assumption, together with the assumptions already made in chapter 4 about the syntax-semantics interface and the DRS construction procedure, will account for much of the semantic behavior of these peculiar nominals. In the last two sections, I return to the difficulties for an account of nominals raised at the beginning of chapter 4.
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Asher, N. (1993). Problems for the Semantics of Nominals. In: Reference to Abstract Objects in Discourse. Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, vol 50. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1715-9_6
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