(1999) Indispensability of semantics

Published on May 12, 2017. Last updated on September 10, 2018.

Enfield, Nick J. (1999). On the indispensability of semantics: Defining the ‘vacuous’. RASK (International Journal of Language and Communication), 9/10, 285-304.

This paper deals with the semantics of “vacuous expressions” in English and Lao.

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