Plural Anaphora in Property-theoretic Discourse Theory
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It is possible to use a combination of classical logic and dependent types to represent natural language discourse and singular anaphora (Fox, 1994a). In this paper, these ideas are extended to account for some cases of plural anaphora. In the theory described, PT D , universal quantiication and conditionals give rise to a context in which singular referents within its scope are transformed into plurals. These ideas are implemented in axiomatic Property Theory (Turner, 1992) extended with plurals (Fox, 1993), giving a treatment of some examples of singular and plural anaphora in a highly intensional, weakly typed, classical, rst-order logic.
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تاریخ انتشار 2007