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Anaphors in Text
Cognitive, formal and applied approaches to anaphoric reference
This volume contains a careful selection of papers concerned with actual research questions on anaphoric reference, a subject of current interest with various linguistic subdisciplines. This is reflected in this book as it methodically covers broadly invested approaches from cognitive, neurolinguistic, formal and computational perspectives, each contribution representing the respective ‘state of the art’ on a high theoretical and empirical level. The volume contains three thematic parts: Anaphors in Cognitive, Text- and Discourse Linguistics; The Syntax and Semantics of Anaphors; and Neurolinguistic Studies on the reception of anaphoric reference. The contributions investigate several Indo-European languages.
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 86] 2007. xvi, 282 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 1 July 2008
Published online on 1 July 2008
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- Table of contents
- Anaphors in text – IntroductionMonika Schwarz-Friesel, Manfred Consten and Mareile Knees | pp. vii–xvi
- Anaphors in Cognitive, Text- and Discourse Linguistics
- Indirect anaphora in text: A cognitive accountMonika Schwarz-Friesel | pp. 3–20
- Indirect pronominal anaphora in English and French: Marginal rarity, or unmarked norm? Some psycholinguistic evidenceFrancis Cornish | pp. 21–36
- Lexical anaphors in Danish and FrenchLita Lundquist | pp. 37–48
- Referential collaboration with computers: Do we treat computer addressees like humans?Fons Maes, Pascal Marcelis and Frank Verheyen | pp. 49–68
- Reflexivity and temporality in discourse deixisFriedrich Lenz | pp. 69–80
- The function of complex anaphors in texts: Evidence from corpus studies and ontological considerationsManfred Consten, Mareile Knees and Monika Schwarz-Friesel | pp. 81–102
- Metaphorical anaphors: A phenomenon of the semantics-pragmatics interfaceHelge Skirl | pp. 103–120
- The Syntax and Semantic of Anaphors
- Accessibility and definite noun phrasesKlaus von Heusinger | pp. 123–144
- The non-subject bias of German demonstrative pronounsPeter Bosch, Graham Katz and Carla Umbach | pp. 145–164
- Anaphoric properties of German right dislocationMaria Averintseva-Klisch | pp. 165–182
- Antecedents of diverse types: An investigation of the syntactic and semantic relationships in a wh-relative constructionAnke Holler | pp. 183–206
- Corpus-based and machine learning approaches to anaphora resolution: A critical assessmentMichael Strube | pp. 207–222
- Neurolinguistic Studies
- Neuroimaging studies of coherence processesEvelyn C. Ferstl and Florian Th. Siebörger | pp. 225–240
- Reference assignment in the absence of sufficient semantic contentPetra B. Schumacher | pp. 241–258
- Resolving complex anaphors: Evidence from online comprehensionKonstanze Marx, Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky and Matthias Schlesewsky | pp. 259–278
- Index | pp. 279–282
“The book addresses a wide range of issues in a number of specific disciplines (corpus linguistics, neurolinguistics, syntactic and semantic theories). It is therefore a commendable attempt to give a fairly comprehensive take on a single linguistic phenomenon, anaphora. It will therefore be welcomed by all those interested in an overall view that takes into account its many facets.”
Alessio S. Frenda, Trinity College Dublin, on Linguist List, Vol. 19.1116 (2008)
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