Dependent Types for Pragmatics
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چکیده
This paper proposes the use of dependent types for pragmatic phenomena such as pronoun binding and presupposition resolution as a typetheoretic alternative to formalisms such as Discourse Representation Theory and Dynamic Semantics.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- CoRR
دوره abs/1410.4639 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2014