File Change Semantics and the Familiarity Theory of Definiteness

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Maximize Presupposition! and local contexts (2011, methodology): “Given an assignment of local contexts to the constituents in S (here we follow the assignment found in Heim (1983b)), the above facts now all follow.”
Implicit Representations of Meaning in Neural Language Models (2021, background): “This is the subject of dynamic semantics in linguistics (Heim, 2008; Kamp et al., 2010; Groenendijk and Stokhof, 1991).”
Minimization of dependency length in written English. (2007, neutral): “7 While a variety of semantic and pragmatic treatments of indefinite NPs have been proposed, most agree on a distinction roughly corresponding to that proposed here between ‘‘specific’’ indefinite NPs and others (Abbott, 2004;Diesing, 1992;Heim, 1983; Partee, 1972).”
Beyond Word Frequency: Bursts, Lulls, and Scaling in the Temporal Distributions of Words (2009, neutral): “Science 298:1569–1579.”