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    Challenges→Pronouns are a special subclass of presuppositional expressions that almost always must be bound rather than accommodated.

    Postal (1966) and Jackendoff (1972) established that pronouns carry descriptive content via phi-features (gender, number, animacy), supplying sufficient material for accommodation of a novel discourse referent.

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    Jackendoff (1972)(as a foundational reference in linguistics)
    Ray Jackendoff, a linguist who built on earlier work in 1972 to develop theories about how language structures meaning, including how pronouns work.
    Phi-features(as technical grammatical categories)
    Grammatical properties attached to pronouns that specify details like gender (male/female), number (singular/plural), and whether something is alive or not.
    Postal (1966)(as a foundational reference in linguistics)
    Paul Postal, a linguist who published influential work in 1966 arguing that pronouns (like 'he' or 'she') contain grammatical information that helps identify who or what is being talked about.
    Pronouns(as used in grammar and semantics)
    Words like 'he,' 'she,' 'it,' or 'they' that refer back to a noun mentioned earlier.

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    accommodation(Binding theory of presupposition)
    The introduction of a new discourse referent into the discourse representation structure (DRS) when no suitable existing referent is available to bind a presupposition trigger.
    descriptive content(Putnam's characterization, contrasted with causal theories of reference)
    At its simplest, 'what is in one's head'
    discourse referent
    An entity introduced within a DRS that can serve as the antecedent for anaphoric expressions, accessible only within DRSs to which the introducing DRS is accessible

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