Representation and Interpretation of Determiners in Natural Language
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648 NATURAL LANGUAGE by first order predicate calculus: "The sentence Floyd broke a glass translates into 3 x (glass (x) A break (Floyd, x)) or, in the notation of restricted quantification ( ] x : glass) (break (Floyd, x)). In either case, the syntactic constituent a glass does not correspond to any semantic constituent; rather, its interpretation forms several discontinuous parts of the logical expression." [Jackendoff 84, p.52).
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