Presuppositions and Pronouns - Nijmegen Centre for Semantics

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(10) a. Either Wilbur doesn't have a radio or he keeps it hidden
somewhere.
b. [ b 2 x: Wilbur x,
[ b: 2 :'[3 -[ 3 y: radio y, x owns y]] v [4 [ 4 z: x keep z hidden]]
The reference marker z in (10b 4 ) correlates with the anaphor it in the second
disjunct of (lOa). (l0a). Intuitively, this anaphor has something to do with the
indefinite a radio in the first disjunct, but it is clear that it cannot be bound by
it. In DRT terms, (10b ) 3
is not to accessible (10b 4 ) (nor vice versa, for that
matter), and therefore z cannot be bound to y. This is one of the problems
that will be addressed in the following sections.
We now proceed to give a more succinct formulation of the theory outlined
in the foregoing, starting with a definition of the DRS language.
(11) DRSs and DRS-conditions
a. A DRS