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Dialogue Games

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Despite individual differences, most approaches to text grammar or functional sentence perspective share a number of basic insights and distinctions.

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Carlson, L. (1983). Aboutness. In: Dialogue Games. Synthese Language Library, vol 17. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-3963-0_13

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