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Subject(s)

• Language and languages—Philosophy [Browse]
• Reference sources—Philosophy [Browse]

Editor

• Gundel, Jeanette K. [Browse]
• Abbott, Barbara, 1943- [Browse]

Series

• Oxford handbooks in linguistics. [More in this series]
• Oxford handbooks online. [More in this series]

Summary note

This handbook presents an overview of the phenomenon of reference - the ability to refer to and pick out entities - which is an essential part of human language and cognition. Chapters offer a critical account of all aspects of reference, from the different types of referring expression to the processing of reference in the brain.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Target audience

Specialized.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on March 11, 2019).

Contents

• Introduction / Jeanette Gundel, Barbara Abbott
• De re/de dicto / Ezra Keshet, Florian Schwarz
• Negative Existentials / Lenny Clapp, Marga Reimer, Anne Spire
• A Taxonomy of Uses of Demonstratives / Ryan B. Doran, Gregory Ward
• Contextual Influences on Reference / Craige Roberts
• Reference and Referring Expressions in First Language Acquisition / Anne Salazar Orvig
• Reference Resolution: A Psycholinguistic Perspective / Elsi Kaiser, Emily Fedele
• Accessibility and Reference Production: The Interplay between Linguistic and Non-linguistic Factors / Jorrig Vogels, Emiel Krahmer, Alfons Maes
• What Can Neuroscience Tell Us About Reference? / Berit Brogaard
• Processing Anaphoric Relations: An Electrophysiological Perspective / Christopher Barkley, Robert Kluender
• Computational Generation of Referring Expressions: An Updated Survey / Emiel Krahmer, Kees van Deemter
• Reference as a Speech Act / Peter Hanks
• Computational Models of Referring: Complications of Information Sharing / Kees van Deemter
• Reference in Robotics: A Givenness Hierarchy Theoretic Approach / Tom Williams, Matthias Scheutz
• Referential Intentions / Michael O'Rourke
• Joint Reference / Anne Bezuidenhout
• Cognitive Status and the Form of Referring Expressions in Discourse / Jeanette Gundel, Nancy Hedberg, Ron Zacharski
• Different Senses of 'Referential' / Nancy Hedberg, Jeanette Gundel, Kaja Borthen
• Definiteness and Familiarity / Barbara Abbott
• The Indefiniteness of Definiteness / Barbara Abbott
• Indefiniteness and Specificity / Klaus Von Heusinger.

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ISBN

• 0-19-151097-1
• 0-19-151096-3
• 0-19-186907-4

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