The construction of answers
Pla Paul Piwek · 1997
In the past fifteen years, context-dependence and context change have become central to the trade of formal semantics. In particular, it has become common ground that these notions are essential for the treatment of anaphora and presuppositions (see Kamp and Reyle 1993, Van der Sandt 1992). The importance of context for the notion of answerhood has been pointed out in Hintikka 1974. In this paper, we propose a formalization of the notion of answerhood which treats answerhood as being essentially context-dependent. For this purpose, we take the informal definition of answerhood presented in Groenendijk and Stokhof 1984 as our point of departure: