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Justified Sloppiness In Anaphoric Reference

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Poesio, M., Reyle, U., Stevenson, R. (2008). Justified Sloppiness In Anaphoric Reference. In: Bunt, H., Muskens, R. (eds) Computing Meaning. Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, vol 83. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5958-2_2

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