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Reference and referent accessibility /

The papers in this volume are concerned with the question of how a speaker's intended referent is interpreted by the addressee. Topics include the interpretation of coreferential vs. disjoint reference, the role of intonation, syntactic form and animacy in reference understanding, and the way i...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: International Pragmatics Conference
Otros Autores: Fretheim, Thorstein, Gundel, Jeanette K.
Formato: Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, ©1996.
Colección:Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 38.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • REFERENCE AND REFERENT ACCESSIBILITY
  • Editorial page
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Table of contents
  • Introduction
  • References
  • Referring Expressionsand the +/- Coreference Distinction
  • 1. On distinguishing between coreference and disjointness
  • 2. Wrong predictions concerning coreference and disjointness
  • 2.1 Coreference -> Disjointness
  • 2.2 Disjointness -> Coreference
  • 3. Referring as marking degree of accessibility
  • 4. On the non-contrast between coreference and disjointness markingand interpretation.
  • 4.1 The non-specialization of referring expressions as to +/- coreference
  • Notes
  • References
  • Inferring Identifiability and Accessibility
  • 1. Identifiability
  • 2. Accessibility
  • 3. Two kinds of inference
  • References
  • Animacy in grammar and discourse
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Animacy and syntactic function
  • 2.1. The role of animacy in the grammaticalization of syntactic functions
  • 2.2. Corpus data
  • 2.2.1. Syntactic function
  • 2.2.2. Hierarchical relations between NPs
  • 3. Animacy, gender and number
  • 4. Animacy and pronominalization.
  • 4.1. Pronominalization propensity and long-scope pronominalization
  • 4.2. 'Identity of sense ' anaphora
  • 5. Animacy and semantic roles
  • 6. Point of view
  • 7. Notes on the animacy hierarchy
  • 8. Conclusion
  • References
  • Cognitive Ontology and NP Form
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Background
  • 2.1. Animacy and individuation
  • 2.2. First-mention definites and relationality
  • 3. A simple cognitive ontology
  • 3.1. Individuals, Functionals, and Instances
  • 3.2. Identification of referents, relations and types
  • 4. Elaborations
  • 4.1. Indefinite NPs and Functionals.
  • 4.2 Inherent properties and temporary perspectives
  • 4.3. Degrees of individuation
  • 4.4. Proper names and sub-classe s of Individuals
  • 5. Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • Accessing Contexts With Intonation
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Intonation and relevance
  • 2.1. Topic continuity and discontinuity
  • 2.2. East Norwegian intonation
  • 3. Accessing explicatures and implicatures with intonation
  • 4. Look for the right context to resolve referential ambiguities
  • 4.1. 'SI because S2'
  • 4.2. 'S1 and S2'
  • 4.3 The results of the reference assignment test
  • 4.4. Discussion
  • 5. Conclusion.
  • Notes
  • References
  • Written Discourse Segmentation:The Function of Unstressed Pronouns in Mandarin Chinese
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Discourse segment
  • 2.1 Discourse Topic mention as a boundary marker
  • 2.2 A propositional view of Discourse Topic
  • 3. The function of pronouns in Mandarin
  • 4. Conclusions
  • References
  • Relevance Theory Meets the Givenness Hierarchy An Account of Inferrables
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The GHZ Framework
  • 3. Relevance Theory and the Givenness Hierarchy
  • 4. Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • On Accessibility and Coreference
  • 1. Introduction.