Towards a Generalization of Anaphora
Journal of SemanticsPublished 1 January 1992
Kees van Deemter
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Insight gained in DRT, as well as in other theories of anaphora, are applied to a wide range of ‘new’ phenomena in the area of context dependent interpretation.
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This paper deals with anaphoric properties of both pronominal and nonpronominal Noun Phrases within the framework of Discourse Representation Theory (DRT). A generalized notion of anaphora is advocated, in which the notion of anaphora is extended to cover relations between anaphor and antecedent <it>other than</it> referential identity. This paper tries to make insights gained in DRT, as well as in other theories of anaphora, applicable to a wide range of ‘new’ phenomena in the area of context dependent interpretation.
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