ABSTRACT
To say precisely what anaphora is in a way that is theory neutral is nontrivial. Very roughly, cases of anaphora involve one expression, the anaphoric one, being interpreted in light of another expression, its antecedent. A paradigmatic case would be the following:
1. Joanna1 came to talk to me. She1 was upset. (I’ll use numerical coindexing to indicate intended anaphoric relations.)
Here ‘She’ is the anaphor (anaphoric on ‘Joanna’) and ‘Joanna’ is its antecedent. It is widely held that expressions of many different syntactic categories produce anaphora. However, for purposes of the present chapter, we shall concentrate on pronominal anaphora since it is the most widely studied form of anaphora and has generated the most controversy.
