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Quantifiers, Anaphora, and Intensionality
Journal of Logic, Language and Information, 1997 The relationship between Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG) {\em functional structures} (f-structures) for sentences and their semantic interpretations can be expressed directly in a fragment of linear logic in a way that correctly explains the constrained interactions between quantifier scope ambiguity, bound anaphora and intensionality.
Mary Dalrymple +3 more
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Quelques précisions sur l’anaphore notionnelle
Corela, 2013 This article deals with a particular kind of object complement, and in so doing discusses notional anaphora in utterances where the marker SO is associated with the verbs make, find, consider and describe.
Elisabet Johansson-Manoury
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NP animacy identification for anaphora resolution
, 2007 In anaphora resolution for English, animacy identification can play an integral role in the application of agreement restrictions between pronouns and candidates, and as a result, can improve the accuracy of anaphora resolution systems.
Evans, Richard, Orasan, Constantin
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, 2022 This dissertation provides a commitment-based account of discourse-polarity and anaphoric polarity-sensitivity by appealing to veridicality distinctions.It investigates the interaction of anaphora and negation, addressing the overarching question of how ...
Hofmann, Lisa
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Information and Computation, 1993 Consider the computational problem of understanding the utterances of a human language that contain pronouns. In order to completely understand such utterances, the language user must determine the intended references of each pronoun in a given utterances.
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Cadernos de Estudos Lingüísticos, 2011 This paper presents some distinction between actancial associative anaphora and nominalisation from semantics of events. We claim that if the anaphoric element plays a thematic role of the previous sentence, an actancial associative anaphora will occur ...
Graziela Zamponi
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Why Are All the Sets All the Sets?
Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Necessitists about set theory think that the pure sets exists, and are the way they are, as a matter of necessity. They cannot explain why the sets (de rebus) are all the sets. This constitutes the Ur‐Objection against necessitism; it is the primary motivation cited by potentialists about set theory.
Tim Button
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, 2011 Anaphora can be generally defined as “subsequent reference to an entity already introduced in discourse” (Safir 2004a; see Representing Anaphoric Dependencies). The study of anaphora spans various fields of linguistics, from formal syntax and semantics to linguistic typology and pragmatics, and from computational linguistics to language processing and ...
Reuland, E.J. +2 more
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Prins of boswachter? Interpretatie van subjectanaforen in het nederlands als tweede taal
Acta Universitatis Carolinae Philologica, 2019 This study aims to investigate offline processing of subject anaphora in Dutch. An important parameter in this study is the difference between pro drop and non-pro drop languages.
Michal Kořenář
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‘Chrystalline Talk’: Thomas Browne's Poetics of Concretion and Mineral Plain Style
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article charts the figuration, both material and rhetorical, of mineral bodies in early modern natural philosophy, paying particular attention to the second book of Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica (1646). It argues that concretions (stony calculi and crystals formed through the aggregation of physical matter) make manifest a mineral
Jess Dunmore
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