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This paper discusses how to establish an anaphoric link between an indefinite NP and a pronoun in intensional contexts, in particular, contexts where different belief-holders are concerned, such as Hob-Nob sentences. It is shown that anaphoric relations in Hob-Nob sentences cannot be accounted for by dynamic binding or the E-type strategy, based on the evidence from the differences in distribution between overt and null pronouns in Japanese. To account for such cases, it is claimed, following Porter [15], that pronouns in intensional contexts should be treated as demonstratives and argued that as far as “the mode of presentations” of the antecedent NP and the pronoun anaphoric to it are consistent, the anaphoric relation between them can be established.
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Kurafuji, T. (2007). A Demonstrative Analysis of Anaphora in Hob-Nob Sentences. In: Sakurai, A., Hasida, K., Nitta, K. (eds) New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. JSAI JSAI 2003 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3609. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71009-7_40
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