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Anaphors and Quantifiers

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Logic, Language, Information, and Computation (WoLLIC 2016)

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Various properties of functions denoted by anaphors and anaphoric determiners are studied in this paper. These properties indicate similarities (conservativity, intersectivity) and differences (predicate invariance, anaphoric conservativity, anaphoric intersectivity) between anaphoric functions and quantifiers and show that anaphors essentially extend the expressive power of natural languages.

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    R. Zuber

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  1. Dept of Mathematics & Statistics, Univ of Helsinki Dept of Mathematics & Statistics, Helsinki, Finland

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  2. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Helsinki , Helsinki, Finland

    Ã…sa Hirvonen

  3. Centro de Informática , Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

    Ruy de Queiroz

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Zuber, R. (2016). Anaphors and Quantifiers. In: Väänänen, J., Hirvonen, Å., de Queiroz, R. (eds) Logic, Language, Information, and Computation. WoLLIC 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9803. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-52921-8_26

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