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By Nomi Erteschik-Shir,Tova Rapoport

This selection of new paintings makes a speciality of concerns on the lexicon-syntax interface. It offers leading edge analyses of theoretical problems with aspectual interpretation in quite a few languages. The authors deal with questions comparable to to what quantity can edition in verbal which means, and thematic details will be made up our minds within the syntax, and the way the translation of assorted syntactic buildings is derived, as soon as lexical details is minimized. A subset of the articles develops theories that take as their start line the lexical-syntactic framework of the past due Ken Hale and Jay Keyser, fashionable between that is their very own chapter.

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