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The article's last sentence "DRT is now the main framework used for the formal treatment of natural language in semantics." is not accurate. While it is true that DRT is a framework that is "alive", it is not true that it is the main framework used for the formal treatment of natural language in semantics. Arguably that would be a Montague-style semantics.

Edit: Though Montague-style semantics are still used and are a rather prominent way to capture natural language in a formal way, DRT is the by far more sufficient method. Thinking of the famous donkey-pronouns there is no way we can deal with these cases in a real (hardcore) Montague framework. Nevertheless, this shouldn't result in a ideological debate about whose theory/method/... is the nicest, ...

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For readers who have studied predicate logic but not DRT, could it be good to explain what is the difference between introducing a new Discourse Referent and introducing a new existentially quantified variable? CathyLegg (talk) 12:28, 18 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

"Insufficient context" tag

Can it now be removed? -- UKoch (talk) 15:57, 13 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I've removed it--it was introduced in April 2006, and the article (including the lead section) has changed considerably since then. -- UKoch (talk) 14:22, 20 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]