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Towards a Generalization of Anaphora
Institute for Perception Research (IPO) POBox 513 5600 MB Eindhoven The Netherlands
This paper deals with anaphoric properties of both pronominal and nonpronominal Noun Phrases within the framework of Discourse Representation Theory (DRT). A generalized notion of anaphora is advocated, in which the notion of anaphora is extended to cover relations between anaphor and antecedent other than referential identity. This paper tries to make insights gained in DRT, as well as in other theories of anaphora, applicable to a wide range of new phenomena in the area of context dependent interpretation.