Using Continuations to Account for Plural Quantification and Anaphora Binding

 

Anca Dinu

 

The author is with the Centre for Computational Linguistics, University of Bucharest, Romania (e-mail: anca_d_dinu@yahoo.com).

 

Manuscript received on November 1, 2011.
manuscript accepted on December 9, 2011.

 

Abstract

We give in this paper an explicit formal account of plural semantics in the framework of continuation semantics introduced in [1] and extended in [4]. We deal with aspects of plural dynamic semantics such as plural quantification, plural anaphora, conjunction and disjunction, distributivity and maximality conditions. Those phenomena need no extra stipulations to be accounted for in this framework, because continuation semantics provides a unified account of scope-taking.

Key words: Discourse semantics, continuations, plural anaphora, plural quantifiers' scope.

 

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Research supported by the CNCS, IDEI - PCE project 311/2011, "The Structure and Interpretation of the Romanian Nominal Phrase in Discourse Representation Theory: the Determiners."

 

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