Anaphora from Athens to Amsterdam
pp. 17-29
in: Klaus Von Heusinger, Urs Egli (eds), Reference and anaphoric relations, Berlin, Springer, 2000Abstract
There is a thesis about syntax which is rather unpopular today. It says that logical form must be intimately connected with surface syntax of natural language. One of the protagonists of such a tenet was Richard Montague with his version of semantic syntax, which constructed syntax and semantics in a strictly parallel way. This leads to a strict form of a naturalness principle, according to which we must be prepared to treat the forms of natural language as they appear in natural language syntax without paraphrasing them away. There are constructions for which we can fulfill this requirement rather well, e.g. in the semantics of noun phrases as treated by Montague and Barwise & Cooper in their classical papers (cf. also Egli 1975). Note that the standard treatment by Frege and Russell paraphrased these noun phrase constructions with the help of more basic unrestricted quantifiers and connectives.
