Reference : interdisciplinary perspectives / edited by Jeanette K. Gundel and Nancy Hedberg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gundel, Jeanette K.

Hedberg, Nancy Ann.

Series:

New directions in cognitive science

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reference (Linguistics).

Reference (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

vii, 279 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Contents:

Part I What Is Reference?

2 On Referring and Not Referring / Kent Bach 13

Part II What Is the Appropriate Linguistic Analysis of Different Forms of Referring Expression?

3 Issues in the Semantics and Pragmatics of Definite Descriptions in English / Barbara Abbott 61

4 Equatives and Deferred Reference / Gregory Ward 73

Part III How Is Reference Resolved?

5 Rethinking the SMASH Approach to Pronoun Interpretation / Andrew Kehler 95

6 Good-Enough Representation in Plural and Singular Pronominal Reference / Sungryong Koh, Anthony J. Sanford, Charles Clifton Jr., Eugene J. Dawydiak 123

Part IV How Do We Select Forms of Referring Expression?

7 The Overlapping Distribution of Personal and Demonstrative Pronouns / Donna K. Byron, Sarah Brown-Schmidt, Michael K. Tanenhaus 143

8 Reference, Centers, and Transitions in Spoken Spanish / Maite Taboada 176

9 Linguistic Claims Formulated in Terms of Centering / Massimo Poesio 216

10 Looking Both Ways / Alan Garnham, H. Wind Cowles 246.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780195331639

019533163X

OCLC:

105442961