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Erkenntnis, 1983
One of the most interesting innovations in the philosophy of language in recent years has been the development of “situation semantics” by Jon Barwise and John Perry. The full presentation of this new approach to semantics is still to come, in two volumes, Situations and Attitudes and Situation Semantics, the first of which will be published by ...
D. Føllesdal
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Parsing with Situation Semantics

Nordic Journal of Linguistics, 1991
This paper integrates several related lines of research in an implemented model. Its main aim is to show how principles of situation semantics concerning meanings, constraints and the preferred ontology can be represented and mapped onto expressions of natural language in a straightforward way.
Thomas Polzin, Hannes Rieser
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Implicit arguments in situation semantics

Linguistics and Philosophy, 1988
The paper starts with an ill-defined grammatical distinction between ``arguments'' and ``adjuncts'', opposing both to ``implicit arguments''. These are not defined at all, though examples make it patent that what is meant are adverbial phrases like ``by Felix'' in the sentence ``John was seen by Felix''. We learn that ``rather they are phrases licensed
R. Larson
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Generalized Quantification in Situation Semantics

Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, 2002
This paper extends the grammar presented in Loukanova (2002, this volume) to cover NL expressions that contain multiple quantificational NPs, restrictive relative clauses, and intensional verbs. The grammar rules use a quantificational operator, which moves quantifier representations from the storage to the basis.
Roussanka Loukanova
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