Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Background
  • 2.1. Reference worlds
  • 2.2. Types of implication
  • 2.3. Knowledge and coherence
  • 3. Knowledge and coherence. Coherence marking adverbials
  • 3.1. Requirements for a theory of knowledge
  • 3.2. Knowledge and coherence marking adverbials
  • 4. Noun phrases
  • 4.1. Reference, definiteness, deixis, and anaphora
  • 4.2. Definite descriptions
  • 4.3. Anaphoric pronouns
  • 4.4. Demonstrative pronouns
  • 4.5. Repeating or paraphrasing an NP
  • 5. Prosodic prominence, ellipsis, and word order
  • 5.1. Functional sentence perspective5.2. Ellipsis
  • 5.3. Word order patterns
  • 5.4. Prominence adverbials
  • 6. Concluding remarks
  • Notes
  • References
  • Sources of samples
  • Index of names
  • Index of subjects
  • List of semantic representations