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  <Title>TENSE AS DISCOURSE ANAPHOR</Title>
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TENSE AS DISCOURSE ANAPHOR
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    <Paragraph position="0"> In this paper, I consider a range of English expressions and show that their context-dependency can be  characterized in terms of two properties: 1. They specify entities in an evolving model of the discourse that the listener is constructing; 2. The particular entity specified depends on another entity in that part of the evolving &amp;quot;discourse  model&amp;quot; that the listener is currently attending to.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Such expressions have been called anaphors. I show how tensed clauses share these characteristics, usually just attributed to anaphoric noun phrases. This not only allows us to capture in a simple way the oft-stated but difficult-to-prove intuition that tense is anaphoric, but also contributes to our knowledge of what is needed for understanding narrative text.</Paragraph>
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