A prolegomenon to situation semantics
Published 1 January 1983Open access
David Israël
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An attempt is made to introduce Computational Linguistics to Situation Semantics and its applications to linguistics and semantics.
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An attempt is made to prepare Computational Linguistics for Situation Semantics.
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