Talk by Jaap van der Does
E-type Pronouns and Categorial Semantics
In this talk I argue that E-type pronouns can be treated as generalized
quantifiers which are contextually restricted by material inherited from
their antecedent. This approach to pronouns developed out of Evans (1977,
1980), Neale (1990), Ludlow and Neale (1991), among others, using the context
sets of Westerstahl (1984). It has the important aspect that basically the
same mechanism can be used for all noun phrases which are antecedent to noun
phrases outside their scope. The constraints required can be phrased in terms
of quantifier properties (cf. Van Deemter 1992). To make this precise, I
shall present a labelled, many dimensional categorial system, which generates
trhe meaning of a wide class of discourses in a compositional way.
Paul Dekker, November 2, 1995