Lutz Marten has worked and studied in Hamburg, London, and Dar es Salaam. He is currently a Millennium Research Fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, where he works on the dynamics of interpretation and the relation between syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, as well as on the analysis of African languages, especially Swahili.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. A Formal Model of Utterance Interpretation ; 3. Arguments and Adjuncts ; 4. Verbal Underspecification ; 5. The Interpretation of Underspecified Verbs ; 6. Applied Verbs in Swahili ; 7. Conclusion

Lutz Marten has worked and studied in Hamburg, London, and Dar es Salaam. He is currently a Millennium Research Fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, where he works on the dynamics of interpretation and the relation between syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, as well as on the analysis of African languages, especially Swahili.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. A Formal Model of Utterance Interpretation ; 3. Arguments and Adjuncts ; 4. Verbal Underspecification ; 5. The Interpretation of Underspecified Verbs ; 6. Applied Verbs in Swahili ; 7. Conclusion

Lutz Marten has worked and studied in Hamburg, London, and Dar es Salaam. He is currently a Millennium Research Fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, where he works on the dynamics of interpretation and the relation between syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, as well as on the analysis of African languages, especially Swahili.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. A Formal Model of Utterance Interpretation ; 3. Arguments and Adjuncts ; 4. Verbal Underspecification ; 5. The Interpretation of Underspecified Verbs ; 6. Applied Verbs in Swahili ; 7. Conclusion