Cross-speaker Anaphora and Dialogue Acts

Francez and Berg (1994) introduced the term CROSS-SPEAKER ANAPHORA to indicate reference by conversational participant (CP) B to a discourse entity introduced by CP A. Crossspeaker anaphora is further discussed in (Groenendijk, Stokhof, and Veltman, 1997; Dekker, 1997), where it is noted that the phenomenon is subject to a number of constraints: e.g., it is generally not felicitous for B to follow an utterance by A like (1a) with an unqualified assertion like (1b), whereas modally qualified statements such as (1c) are possible. (Groenendijk, Stokhof, and Veltman, 1997) also note that under the appropriate conditions, a continuation like (1d) may be felicitous.