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Abstract Pronouns have very little descriptive content, yet they are de finite. Because they are de finite, they participate in a web of anaphoric relations in discourse, relations mediated by the structured information which competent interlocutors control as they converse. An anaphoric expression harkens back not to another expression, such as a noun-phrase (NP) in prior discourse, but to a discourse referent, an element of that structured information. If a pronoun seems to refer deictically, or to be bound by a quantificational operator, or to borrow the descriptive content of another NP, this is because of the relationship between the corresponding discourse referent and the entity picked out deictically, the quantificational operator, or the other NP.
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