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Seeing the language: a diagrammatic approach to natural discourse

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The key idea behind the diagrammatic approach presented in the paper is that the sophisticated mechanisms of human visual construction also play an important role in natural languages. We propose a diagrammatic representation of English, giving examples, translation rules, and semantics. Special attention will be paid to anaphoric phenomena, in particular, the possibility of a uniform treatment of anaphoric pronouns.

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    Aránzazu San Ginés

  2. Department of Philosophy 1, University of Granada, Granada, Spain

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San Ginés, A. Seeing the language: a diagrammatic approach to natural discourse. Synthese 186, 411–439 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-011-9987-4

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