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On Syntactically Encoded Parameters of Situations
The article deals with the aspects of information expressed by syntactic structures, namely, particular features of real-world situations like spatial and temporal contact or distance, direct vs. indirect causation, initiating a natural process vs. achieving the result with effort, control vs. non-control, prototypical vs. non-prototypical situations, etc.
the semantics of syntax, syntactic representations of situations, causation, control, syntactic polysemy