Coreference and Representationalism
Paul Dekker

Abstract:
The compositional interpretation of structures in discourse has raised the
question whether some level of representation is indispensable in the
analysis of the semantics of natural language. In this paper we formulate
and motivate three notions of representationalism (a strong, a medium or
midweak, and a weak one) and discuss to what extent existing formal
semantic frameworks qualify as (strongly, midweakly or weakly)
representational.
 
To be published in: Reference and Anaphoric Relations,, ed: Klaus von 
Heusinger und Urs Egli, Kluwer, forthcoming,