6 French Relational Words, Context Sensitivity and Implicit Arguments

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Title:	6 French Relational Words, Context Sensitivity and Implicit Arguments
Author(s):	Brendan S. Gillon
Volume:	24 Editor(s): Ken Turner ISBN: 978-0-85724-909-8 eISBN: 978-0-85724-910-4
Citation:	Brendan S. Gillon (2011), 6 French Relational Words, Context Sensitivity and Implicit Arguments, in Ken Turner (ed.) Making Semantics Pragmatic (Current Research in the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface, Volume 24), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp.143-163
DOI:	10.1108/S1472-7870(2011)0000024008 (Permanent URL)
Publisher:	Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Article type:	Chapter Item
Extract:	Let us refer to these words as relational words with optional complements. Some of these words behave as though the unexpressed relatum could be expressed by some suitably restricted indefinite noun phrase; while others behave as though the unexpressed relatum could be expressed by some suitably chosen context sensitive expression such as a personal pronoun.