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Quantifiers in natural language contribute both to the truth conditions of a sentence and to the discourse in which the sentence occurs. While a great deal of attention has been paid to truth conditions, the contributions of quantifiers to the discourse have been little studied. This paper seeks to rectify this by developing a set of game rules that account both for the truth conditional and the discourse contributions of quantified expressions.
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Clark*, R. (2009). Games, Quantification and Discourse Structure. In: Majer, O., Pietarinen, AV., Tulenheimo, T. (eds) Games: Unifying Logic, Language, and Philosophy. Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science, vol 15. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9374-6_7
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