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This paper investigates how different speech acts can embed and interact with logical operators and quantifiers. It argues for a discourse based semantics approach to the problem.
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Asher, N. (2006). Dynamic Discourse Semantics for Embedded Speech Acts. In: Washio, T., Sakurai, A., Nakajima, K., Takeda, H., Tojo, S., Yokoo, M. (eds) New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. JSAI 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4012. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-35471-0_19
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