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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi Emily!<br>
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Yes, but I'm suggest that "pro-" is "pronomial" not "proto"!-)
Generally, don't we want elipsis to be reflected in the
semantics? That is, in the "u" and "i" type variables in the MRS
(or unresolved pronouns)?<br>
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Shouldn't the MRS for for that doing have an argument to be
resolved against the situational argument for the moving? That
argument would be "so" treated as a pronoun, which seems the
proper semantics since the "so" actually/semantically references
some event/situation, no? That is, if pronomial "so" was the
direct object of "do" here, I think all would be well.<br>
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Paul<br>
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On 10/8/2013 9:14 PM, Emily M. Bender wrote:<br>
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<div>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
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<div>x6 is doing something, but what that something is needs to
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<div>Hi All,<br>
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In the following, it seems that "so" is more of a
pronoun than a preposition (at least it seems "so" to
me!).<br>
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I would appreciate your thoughts on getting reasonable
logic from the ERG for this sentence, which is quite
interesting when you also consider quantification...<br>
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Thank you and best regards,<br>
Paul<br>
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