Title: Noun Phrase Interpretation in Montague Grammar, File Change Semantics, and Situation Semantics
Abstract: The treatment of quantification and anaphora proposed by Heim and Kamp (Kamp 1981, Heim 1982, Heim 1983) are motivated in part by puzzles about anaphora to indefinite Noun Phrases (NPs) such as a donkey, puzzles following from the fact that meanings of these NPs are standardly held to involve existential quantifiers with limited scope. In a restricted quantifier formula, a quantifier binds variables only in its restrictor and in its scope. This is illustrated in (1a), where ∀y binds the occurrences of y in its restrictor donkey(y) and its scope despise(x, y), but not the occurrence of y in kick(x, y). Similarly, in (1b) the universal quantifier binds the first two but not the third occurrence of x as a term.1
Publication Year: 1987
Publication Date: 1987-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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