Talk by Martin H. van den Berg
Discourse Grammar and Dynamic Logic
Existing theories of Dynamic Semantics provide us with a very powerful
formal apparatus to express the linking of anaphora with their antecedent.
However, less attention is paid to the identification of the antecedent,
particular in the Dynamic Logic formalisms. In my dissertation, where I
use a variant of DPL (called FDPL) to formalize the dynamics of arbitrary
quantifiers and plurals, I also did not discuss the resolution mechanism.
In this paper, a Discourse Grammar, based on the Linguistic Discourse
Model (Polanyi 1984) and on the work on discourse grammar for VP-ellipsis
(Pr\"ust et.al. 1995), is define, that has FDPL as its semantic component
and makes linguistically reasonable predications about anaphora
resolution.
Paul Dekker, November 2, 1995