Descriptive Indexicals, Deferred Reference, and Anaphora
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2199-6059,0860-150X
DOI: 10.2478/slgr-2020-0012