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Wh-questions in Underspecified Minimal Recursion Semantics
Author: Markus EggEditor:
In this paper, I present Underspecified Minimal Recursion
Semantics (UMRS), a representation language that
represents structural ambiguities in terms of
underspecification. It is argued that this kind of
approach allows for transparent semantic
representations and a straightforward
syntax-semantics interface. UMRS is a semantic
metalanguage, whose expressions describe
expressions of an object language and (possibly
underspecified) dependences between them. The
potential of UMRS will be illustrated by employing
it as the semantic component of an HPSG description
of wh-questions.
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