In this paper we discuss the notion of "bridging" in Discourse Representation
Theory as a tool to account for discourse referents that have only been
established implicitly, through the lexical semantics of other referents. In
doing so, we use ideas from Generative Lexicon theory, to introduce antecedents
for anaphoric expressions that cannot be "linked" to a proper antecedent, but
that do not need to be "accommodated" because they have some connection to the
network of discourse referents that is already established.
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