Nominal quantification as top-level anaphora

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So far, we have focused on discourse reference to atomic individuals and specific times, events, and states. The basic point of the argument was that all types of discourse reference involve attention-guided anaphora (in the sense of Bittner 2012: Ch. 2). We now turn to discourses involving anaphora to and by quantificational expressions. Today, we focus on quantification over individuals but the analysis we develop will directly generalize to other semantic types. The basic idea is that quantification is one more species of top-level anaphora--to wit, anaphora to top-ranked sets.

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Maria Bittner
Rutgers University, New Brunswick

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Time and modality without tenses or modals.Maria Bittner - 2011 - In Renate Musan & Monika Rathert (eds.), Tense across Languages. Niemeyer. pp. 147--188.
Discourse Referents.Lauri Karttunen - 1976 - In J. D. McCawley (ed.), Syntax and Semantics Vol. Academic Press. pp. 363--386.

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