Sentence examples for discourse referent from inspiring English sources

In either case, the pronoun simply serves to pick up an accessible discourse referent.

And a pronoun anaphoric on the indefinite gets linked with the discourse referent the indefinite introduced.

What happens if we try to introduce a discourse referent, when it is already present?

An indefinite introduces a new discourse referent into the discourse representation structure for the discourse it is in.

The change in the algebras is caused by the extension of the domains of the assignments: introducing a discourse referent enlarges the storage capacity (Groenendijk et al. 1996).

Consider, for instance, the way pronouns are interpreted in basic DRT, by first setting up a referent marker, which is subsequently linked to another discourse referent.

Dynamic Semantics aspires to offer just such a unified account, taking all anaphora to always refer to discourse referents, or functions from information states to information states.

Discourse referents in the antecedent of a conditional are accessible in the consequent, and discourse referents in embedding DRSs are accessible in the embedded DRSs.

Semantically, the most important idea is that discourse referents are evaluated dynamically.

Sentences are now construed like indefinite descriptions in that they, too, serve to introduce discourse referents.

Thus, e.g., the context in this sense could be a set of discourse referents or files.