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This paper shows that both anaphoricity and egocentric de se binding play a crucial role in the interpretation of tense in discourse. It uses the English backwards shifted reading of the past tense in a mistaken time scenario to bring out the tension between these two features. We provide a suitable representational framework for the observed clash in the form of an extension of DRT in which updates of the common ground are accompanied by updates of each relevant agent’s complex attitudinal state.
We thank Nick Asher, Rob van der Sandt, and Hans Kamp for insightful comments. We also thank the organizers and audience of LENLS 2008, Asahikawa. Emar Maier is supported by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), grant 446-07-004.
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Bary, C., Maier, E. (2009). The Dynamics of Tense under Attitudes – Anaphoricity and de se Interpretation in the Backward Shifted Past. In: Hattori, H., Kawamura, T., Idé, T., Yokoo, M., Murakami, Y. (eds) New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. JSAI 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5447. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00609-8_14
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