Abstract
One view of anaphoric pronouns is that they are bound variables. That was Montague’s view. In fact, by regarding an assignment to the variables as a contextual index he was able to treat all pronouns as variables, and their deictic use as free variables whose value was supplied by the context. I shall first sketch the view of anaphora presented in Chapter 10 of Cresswell 1988, and then shew how this treatment can be extended to deal with anaphoric reference to times and worlds. Anaphora in this chapter will be understood as able to apply over discourses comprising more than one sentence. Consider
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A sheep was in the field.
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It hadn’t yet been shorn.
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The sheep was under a tree.
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That sheep, unlike the others, was hot.
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Cresswell, M.J. (1990). Intersentential Operators. In: Entities and Indices. Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, vol 41. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2139-9_9
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