Splitting the Reference Time: Temporal Anaphora and Quantiication in Drt -technical Report

We present an analysis of temporal anaphora in sentences which contain quantiication over events, within the framework of Discourse Representation Theory. The analysis in 12] of quan-tiied sentences, introduced by a temporal connective, gives the wrong truth-conditions when the temporal connective in the subordinate clause is before or after. This problem has been previously analyzed in 19] as an instance of the proportion problem, and given a solution from a Generalized Quantiier approach. By using a careful distinction between the diierent notions of reference time, based on 16], we propose a solution to this problem, within the framework of DRT. We show some applications of this solution to additional temporal anaphora phenomena in quantiied sentences.