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Syntactically Unexpressed Arguments, Incorporation, and Adjuncts

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In the last chapter, we introduced a new theory of linking based on the Isomorphic Linking Hypothesis, repeated from Chapter 3 (6) in (1), which maps designated arguments to the syntax based on the geometry of Conceptual Structure (CS) representations.

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Randall, J.H. (2010). Syntactically Unexpressed Arguments, Incorporation, and Adjuncts. In: Linking. Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, vol 74. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8308-2_5

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