Generalized Quantification and Anaphora Across Ontological Domains: Evidence from ASL

Temporal and Modal Anaphora in Sign Language (ASL)

We suggest that data from American Sign Language (ASL) provide overt evidence for Partee’s and Stone’s claim that natural language has anaphoric constructions in the temporal and modal domains (Partee 1973, Stone 1997). We provide four arguments. (i) Like nominal and locative expressions, temporal and modal constructions can establish loci which can then be indexed by later pronouns. (ii) As is...

Donkey Anaphora: the View from Sign Language (ASL and LSF)*

There are two main approaches to the problem of donkey anaphora (e.g. If John owns a donkey, he beats it). Proponents of dynamic approaches take the pronoun to be a logical variable, but they revise the semantics of quantifiers so as to allow them to bind variables that are not within their syntactic scope. Older dynamic approaches took this measure to apply solely to existential quantifiers; r...

Deixis, Anaphora and Highly Iconic Structures: Cross- linguistic Evidence on American (ASL), French (LSF) and Italian (LIS) Signed Languages

Splitting the Reference Time: Temporal Anaphora and Quantification in DRT

This paper presents an analysis of temporal anaphora in sentences which contain quantification over events, within the framework of Discourse Representation Theory. The analysis in (Partee, 1984) of quantified sentences, introduced by a temporal connective, gives the wrong truth-conditions when the temporal connective in the subordinate clause is before or after. This problem has been previousl...

تبیینی از چند مسأله فلسفی در علم اقتصاد

The main purpose of this paper is to find an answer to the key question: “What kind of philosophical issues could be expected to be dealt with in economics?” Having reviewed the related literature, the researchers try to explain the philosophy of economics in the context of three domains, i.e. ontology, epistemology, and methodology of economics. The results suggest that ontological issues in e...