Talk:Donkey sentence

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Why is this separate from donkey pronoun if treatment is to be encyclopedic? --Wetman (talk) 21:33, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

See reply at Talk:Donkey pronoun. The donkey sentence launched a lot of work in semantics of natural language, perhaps most notably discourse representation theory. You may want to upgrade the importance, once there's enough info in the article for that to be clear. Philosophers seem to be doing most of the work, linguists seem to value it more highly than philosophers though. That's just my impression from the literature, but I wouldn't defend it very hard. Alastair Haines (talk) 03:13, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
Feel free to adjust the ratings any way you want. Pontiff Greg Bard (talk) 03:50, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
Thank you, your Holiness. ;) I'm content to do the work of writing up the sources. Methinks if I do a passing fair job of it, the sources will speak for themselves. Thanks for dropping by! :) Alastair Haines (talk) 21:26, 23 April 2008 (UTC)