In other words , existing treatments of gradables in GRE fail to take the `` efficiency of language '' into account ( Barwise and Perry 1983 ; see our Section 2 ) .
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Jon Barwise John Perry
Then IA would tend to have little use for this property at all since , presumably , every chihuahua would be small and every alsatian large , making each of the combinations -LCB- large , chihuahua -RCB- ( which denotes the empty set ) and -LCB- large , alsatian -RCB- ( the set of all alsatians ) useless . In other words , existing treatments of gradables in GRE fail to take the `` efficiency of language '' into account ( Barwise and Perry 1983 ; see our Section 2 ) . van Deemter GRE with Gradable Properties
In other words , existing treatments of gradables in GRE fail to take the `` efficiency of language '' into account ( @@CITATION ; see our Section 2 ) .