Sense and Reference in Dynamic Semantics

The dynamic approach to semantic interpretation (Kamp 1980; Heim 1982; Barwise 1987; Rooth 1987; Groenendijk and Stokhof 1992) provides a framework in which a proform can be related to an antecedent across sentence boundaries. While this approach has been very fruitful, it has been limited in two important ways. First, only anaphora involving NP’s has been considered. Thus, while example (1), involving anaphora between “her” and “a woman”, is treated in the dynamic framework, example (2), involving anaphora between VP’s, is not treated.