The Meaning of Verbless Sentences: A Contrastive Corpus Approach

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Antonina Bondarenko

Published: 27 May 2025, Last Modified: 27 May 2025ICLC-11 OralEveryoneRevisionsBibTeXCC BY 4.0
Keywords: contrastive corpus analysis, propositional meaning, pragmatic implicature, verbless sentences, English, Russian
TL;DR: Relying on contrastive corpus data, we explore the pragmatic implicature of the absence of the verb in English and Russian from a quantitative perspective.
Submission Number: 120