VP Ellipsis in a DRT-implementation
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In the second sentence of (1), a do-anaphor appears that must be linked to a marker which has already been introduced into the universe of the DtLS. The value of this marker, which is P1, as we can see in (2), is constrained by the conditions associated with the previous VP in the discourse [Klein, 1986]. Following Klein, we call P1 a predicate marker, and the SubDRS that is associated with Pt a Predicate-DRS. To the domain of P1, a distinguished reference marker Yl (indicated by square brackets) is added, which plays the role of the individual, in this case xl which is applied to the predicate. This application can also be shown as a lambda expression:
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