[erg] semantics of "so" as in "do so"

[Emily M. Bender]

Hello Paul,

It looks like "do so" is being treated as a "pro-verb", and that seems
appropriate to me.  Proverbs (like ellipsis) take their interpretation from
context.  So this says basically that
x6 is doing something, but what that something is needs to be resolved.

Emily


On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Paul Haley <paul at haleyai.com> wrote:

>  Hi All,
>
> In the following, it seems that "so" is more of a pronoun than a
> preposition (at least it seems "so" to me!).
>
> I would appreciate your thoughts on getting reasonable logic from the ERG
> for this sentence, which is quite interesting when you also consider
> quantification...
>
>
>
> Thank you and best regards,
> Paul
>
>


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Emily M. Bender
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