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Modal subordination and pronominal anaphora in discourse

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This paper is a revision of a paper written at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1983. I have benefited particularly from discussions with Barbara Partee, Angelika Kratzer, and Fred Landman, as well as Irene Heim, James Higginbotham, Roger Higgins, Nirit Kadmon, Hans Kamp, Stanley Peters, Peter Sells, and two anonymous reviewers forLinguistics and Philosophy. I also wish to thank Colin Gordon and Emma Pease for their assistance in the preparation of the manuscript. My research at the University of Massachusetts was supported in part by the System Development Foundation, grant SDF#650, “Research on the Formal Foundation of Semantics”, Further research was conducted at the Center for the Study of Language and Information under a grant from the System Development Foundation, I gratefully acknowledge the support of these individuals and institutions, without which this work would not have been possible.

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Roberts, C. Modal subordination and pronominal anaphora in discourse. Linguist Philos 12, 683–721 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00632602

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