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.... philosophy, and the mind [10] It was first formulated in detail by Jon Barwise and John Perry in 1983 [11] and has matured over the last decade [24] Various versions of the theory have been applied to a number of linguistic issues, resulting in what is commonly known as situation semantics [7, 8, 9, 23, 29, 31, 33, 48]. The latter aims at the construction of a unified and mathematically rigorous theory of meaning, and the application of such a theory to natural languages. Department of Computer Engineering and Information Science, Faculty of Engineering, Bilkent, 06533 Ankara, Turkey. E mail: ftin, ....

.... With these underlying assumptions and features, situation semantics provides a fundamental and appropriate framework for a realistic model theoretic semantics of natural language [10] Various versions of this theory have been applied to a number of linguistic issues (mainly) in English [7, 8, 9, 20, 22, 23, 29, 33, 41]. The ideas emerging from research in situation semantics have also been coalesced with well developed linguistic theories such as lexical functional grammar [45] and led to rigorous formalisms [31] On the other hand, situation semantics has been compared to other influential mathematical ....

J. M. Gawron and S. Peters. Anaphora and Quantification in Situation Semantics, CSLI Lecture Notes Number 19, Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford, Calif., 1990.

....easily resolved by appropriate regulations. Another view, however, is that the question is an instance of a deep conceptual problem, also manifest in the analysis of proofs as functional objects in proof theory and programming [16, 19, 27, 44] in the question of parameters in situation theory [15], and in treatments within discourse representation theory of phenomena, such as VP ellipsis [25] whose natural analysis requires abstraction. While it would be presumptuous to claim that the present analysis will solve fully the di#cult problems just mentioned, it is hoped that the techniques ....

M. Gawron and S. Peters. Anaphora and Quantification in Situation Theory. Number 19 in CSLI Lecture Notes. Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford, California, 1990. Distributed by Chicago University Press.

....information, logic, philosophy, and the mind. The original theory was due to Jon Barwise and John Perry [6] The theory has matured over the last decade [12] and various versions of it have been applied to a number of linguistic issues, resulting in what is commonly known as situation semantics [2, 3, 5, 11, 15, 16, 18, 25]. Situation semantics aims at the construction of a mathematically rigorous theory of meaning, and the application of such a theory to natural language. The mathematical foundations of the theory are based on intuitions basically coming from set theory and logic [1, 3, 11, 12] One of the ....

....other proposals. It seems that indexicals, demonstratives, referential uses of definite descriptions, pronouns, tense markers, names, etc. all have technical treatments in situation semantics that reach beyond available theoretical apparatus. For example, the proposed mechanisms, as reported in [18], for dealing with quantification and anaphoric connections in English sentences are all firmly grounded in situation semantics. The insistence of situation semantics on contextual interpretation makes the theory more compatible with speech act theory (and pragmatics in general) than other ....

J. M. Gawron and S. Peters. Anaphora and Quantification in Situation Semantics, CSLI Lecture Notes Number 19, Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford, CA, 1990.

....section. It is well known that sentences like (12) Mary revised her paper before Susan did are systematically ambiguous between a strict reading in which both Mary and Susan revised Mary s paper, and a sloppy reading in which each revised her own paper [7] Most treatments of this phenomenon [9, 28, 34], rely on an identity of relations analysis of ellipsis, in which the interpretation of the elided material in the target clause ( Susan did in the example) must be identical to the interpretation of a suitable phrase in the source clause ( Mary revised her paper in the example) Sag s analysis ....

M. Gawron and S. Peters. Anaphora and Quantification in Situation Theory. Number 19 in CSLI Lecture Notes. Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford, California, 1990. Distributed by Chicago University Press.

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