Experimenting with the king of France: Topics, verifiability and definite descriptions
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Experimenting with the king of France: Topics, verifiability and definite descriptions
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عنوان ژورنال: Semantics and Pragmatics
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1937-8912
DOI: 10.3765/sp.6.10