In this paper, we present experimental evidence from a ‘yes’/’no’ judgement task and twoacceptability rating studies (Experiments 1a-c) for the claim made in Hinterwimmer (2019) thatsentences with two anaphorically interpreted complex demonstratives are less acceptable thansentences definite descriptions sentences where one ofthe previously introduced referents is picked up by demonstrative, wh...

This paper is about reasoning with presuppositions in natural language. Pre-supposition accommodation, as predicted by the linguistic theory of presupposi-tions as anaphoric expressions, is reconstructed logically as abductive inference in a framework that supports both anaphoric links and a context-dependent notion of propositionhood. Abductive inference arises as a side-eeect of the use of th...

The adverb ”then” is among the most frequent English temporal adverbs, being also capable of filling a variety of semantic roles. The identification of anaphoric usages of ”then” is important for temporal expression resolution, while the temporal relationship usage is important for event ordering. Given that previous work has not tackled the identification and temporal resolution of anaphoric ”...

Anaphora resolution has been a widely studied problem in natural language processing almost since work in the field began (see [Hirst 1981, Mitkov 1999] for summaries). However, most work focuses on the resolution of pronouns, or, at best, on a wider range of anaphoric expressions which co-refer with their antecedents. Real natural language texts exhibit a much richer range of anaphoric phenome...

It was shown in Schlenker (to appear) that in ASL one and the same anaphoric element has nominal, temporal, and modal uses, and that in all three domains generalized quantifiers can introduce loci (= positions in signing space) that denote what is often called the 'maximal set', i.e. the maximal set of objects that satisfy both the restrictor and the nuclear scope. But the anaphoric status of r...

Discourse structure is reflected by a number of global prosodic parameters, like for example pause duration and pitch range. Discourse structure is also known to affect the accessibility/salience of antecedents of anaphoric expressions. Assuming these generalizations are correct, one can ask whether listeners use the information encoded in pauses and pitch range to resolve anaphoric references ...

One of the types of semantic interpretation processes that may help ‘crossing the barriers’ in text summarization is anaphora resolution. In this paper, we show that summarization is a good task for evaluating the performance of an anaphoric resolver, in the sense that it encourages developing anaphoric resolvers that build good-quality discourse models, and the performance of the anaphoric res...

In modal subordination, a modal sentence is interpreted relative to a hypothetical scenario introduced in an earlier sentence. In this paper, I argue that this phenomenon reflects the fact that the interpretation of modals is an ANAPHORIC process, precisely analogous to the anaphoric interpretation of tense. Modal morphemes introduce alternative scenarios as entities into the discourse model; t...

We investigated the time course of anaphor resolution in children and whether this is modulated by individual differences in working memory and reading skill. The eye movements of 30 children (10-11 years) were monitored as they read short paragraphs in which (1) the semantic typicality of an antecedent and (2) its distance in relation to an anaphor were orthogonally manipulated. Children showe...

A new task put on the agenda of philosophical logic by the recent dynamic turn, the account for the dynamics of anaphoric context shifts in reasoning, is taken up. The paper gives a sequent axiomatisation of some well known dynamic anaphora logics. The calculi are shown to be sound and complete. They differ from earlier calculi for the dynamics of anaphoric context in that they take the notion ...