Discourse representation theory

Hans Kamp
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Discourse representation theory (nowadays also known under its acronym DRT) is in the first instance a theory of natural language (NL) semantics. Its main relevance for pragmatics is that the theory has prompted a reassessment of the relationship between semantics and pragmatics.

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