Lexicon of Arguments

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Cresswell I 167
Indeterminate description/Kamp/Heim: indeterminate descriptions are not quantifiers, because real quantifiers cannot work beyond sentences, while pronouns can be connected anaphorically with undefined descriptions from earlier sentences.
>Quantifiers, >Pronouns, >Anaphora, >Prosentential theory.
Example:
(5) Everyone found a cat and kept it.
(6) It ran away.
Only that in (5) can be anaphorically related to the cat.
Cresswell I 175
Indeterminate description/Russell: conforms with existence quantification: E.g. a man: "at least a man."
>Existential quantification.
New Theory/Cresswell: the indefinite article introduces new objects, the specific refers to introduced ones.
I 176
File change semantics/Home: thesis: as entities in the world the objects are not new, but only within the speech, therefore file change ("new in the documents") - File/Kamp/Home: represents facts about objects for the speaker.
>File change semantics.

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