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Coreference and Representationalism

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Reference and Anaphoric Relations

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The compositional interpretation of structures in discourse has raised the question whether some level of representation is indispensable in the analysis of the semantics of natural language. In this paper we formulate and motivate three notions of representationalism (a strong, a medium or midweak, and a weak one) and discuss to what extent existing formal semantic frameworks qualify as (strongly, midweakly or weakly) representational.

The research for this paper was supported by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), and by the ESPRIT basic research project DYANA. For their stimulating ideas I am glad I can thank Irene Heim, Hans Kamp, Fred Landman and Ede Zimmermann, besides, of course, Jeroen Groenendijk, Martin Stokhof and Frank Veltman.

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Dekker, P. (2000). Coreference and Representationalism. In: von Heusinger, K., Egli, U. (eds) Reference and Anaphoric Relations. Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, vol 72. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3947-2_15

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