Brasoveanu, Adrian 2006. Structured Discourse Reference to Propositions, to appear in the Proceedings of Logic & Language 9.

The paper introduces a notion of structured discourse referents which, together with a possible-worlds analysis of intensional phenomena, accounts for examples of modal subordination and entailment particles. The resulting compositional dynamic system – couched in classical type logic – captures the truth-conditions of and the modal and individual-level anaphoric connections established in discourses like:

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