“Christopher Potts”:http://people.umass.edu/potts/. 2004. “The dimensions of quotation”:http://people.umass.edu/potts/potts-brown-paper-quotation.pdf. To appear in Chris Barker and Pauline Jacobson, eds., Proceedings of the Workshop on Direct Compositionality. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
bq. Natural languages are rich in words and constructions for talking about natural language: property-denoting expressions like alliterative, sentences like Ed’s answer was “yes”, and a range of devices for reporting quotations and objecting to speakers’ words and pronunciations. This paper provides a grammar for this domain of natural language. The grammar meets all the technical and intuitive requirements for being directly compositional.
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