Sentences with Two Subordinate Clauses: Syntactic and Semantic Analyses, Underspecified Semantic Representation

I show that sentences with two subordinate clauses may receive two syntactic analyses, and that each syntactic analysis may receive two semantic interpretations. Hence, I put forward an underspecified semantic representation such that each syntactic analysis receives only one underspecified interpretation.

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