At-issueness ≠ anaphoric availability

Authors

  • Todd Snider Cornell University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v2i0.4089

Keywords:

propositional anaphora, at-issueness, Question Under Discussion

Abstract

The at-issue status of a proposition and its availability for anaphora have been tightly linked in the literature (e.g., Tonhauser 2012; Syrett & Koev 2014). In particular, a frequently used diagnostic for at-issueness crucially relies on propositional anaphora. I argue that two different QUD-based diagnostics from Tonhauser 2012 – which do not rely on anaphora – more reliably identify at-issueness. I use these diagnostics to show that neither at-issueness nor availability for anaphora reliably determine one another.

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Published

2017-06-12

How to Cite

Snider, Todd. 2017. “At-Issueness ≠ anaphoric Availability”. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 2 (June): 39:1–15. https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v2i0.4089.