The goal of this book is to investigate the semantics of absolute constructions in English; specifically, my object is to provide an explanation for the semanti

The goal of this book is to investigate the semantics of absolute constructions in English; specifically, my object is to provide an explanation for the semanti

The most general goal of this book is to propose and illustrate a program of research in word semantics that combines some of the methodology and results in lin

1. OUTLINE German has the three main perfect constructions which are illustrated in (1. 1). 1 In each of these constructions, the verb appears in the past parti