[Attempto] @anaphoric reference

[Simon Spero]

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 5:54 AM, Norbert E. Fuchs <fuchs at ifi.uzh.ch> wrote:

>
> Previous versions of ACE allowed proper names in apposition to common
> nouns, but that led to problems as, for instance
>
> A woman John sleeps.


 I can see why using an indefinite article  doesn't work with ACE. since
that wants parenthetical commas, which break conjunctions:

(1) [[[A woman, John], and [a dog]] slept.]
(2)  [[A woman],[John], and [a dog]] slept].

Is there also a problem with "The woman John sleeps." / "John the woman
sleeps."?

Also, since something is the top type, it subsumes any more specific type
that is bound to a variable;  would allowing variables of other types to to
match with it break things?



Simon
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