Abstract
The investigations of previous chapters suggest that subDRSs and predicative DRSs, as well as discourse referents, may serve as terms of anaphoric relations. The use of DRSs as anaphoric antecedents has already pointed to the curious ability of pronouns to refer anaphorically to a sum of what seem to be disparate, abstract objects. In this chapter, I discuss various types of abstract entity anaphora within the DRT framework--in particular, anaphoric reference to events, facts, and propositions, which are representative of eventuality and abstract object anaphora generally. I will indicate how various anaphoric phenomena involving eventualities and abstract entities have a uniform analysis within the DRT framework. This will lay the groundwork for the next three chapters, in which I examine the intricate effects of discourse structure on these anaphoric relations. Even without bringing in discourse structure, however, there is much to say about abstract entity anaphora.
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Asher, N. (1993). Anaphora and Abstract Entities. In: Reference to Abstract Objects in Discourse. Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, vol 50. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1715-9_7
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