Donkey sentence
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donkey-sentence-167-16819805
title:
Donkey sentence
text:
In semantics, a donkey sentence is a sentence containing a pronoun which is semantically bound but syntactically free. They are a classic puzzle in formal semantics and philosophy of language because they are fully grammatical and yet defy straightforward attempts to generate their formal language equivalents. In order to explain how speakers are able to understand them, semanticists have proposed a variety of formalisms including systems of dynamic semantics such as Discourse representation the
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Sentence that resists simple formalization
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donkey_sentence
date created:
2008-03-08T20:59:50Z
date modified:
2024-08-30T14:35:19Z
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