From Discourse to Logic - Introduction to Modeltheoretic Semantics of Natural Language, Formal Logic and Discourse Representation Theory
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Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers (Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, edited by Gennaro Chierchia, Pauline Jacobson, and Francis J. Pelletier, volume 42), 1993, viii + 713 pp. Hardbound in two volumes, Part 1 ISBN 0-7923-1027-6, no price listed; Part 2, ISBN 0-7923-2402-1, no price listed; two volume set, ISBN 0-7923-2403-X, $172.00, £112.00, Dfl 280.Paperbound in one volume, ISBN 0-7923-1028-4, no price listed
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