Coreference and representationalism

Paul Dekker

pp. 287-310

in: Klaus Von Heusinger, Urs Egli (eds), Reference and anaphoric relations, Berlin, Springer, 2000

Abstract

The compositional interpretation of structures in discourse has raised the question whether some level of representation is indispensable in the analysis of the semantics of natural language. In this paper we formulate and motivate three notions of representationalism (a strong, a medium or midweak, and a weak one) and discuss to what extent existing formal semantic frameworks qualify as (strongly, midweakly or weakly) representational.