The present paper presents an anaphoric account of presupposition. It is argued that
presuppositional expressions should not be seen as referring expressions, nor is …

This dissertation investigates the ways in which natural language restricts the domains of
quantifiers. Adverbs of quantification are analyzed as quantifying over situations (instead of …

A perception experiment investigated the appropriateness of a number of accent patterns in
contexts in which a referring expression can be regarded as neither completely given …

In this paper, it is argued that “coreference” annotations, as performed in the MUC
community for example, go well beyond annotation of the relation of coreference proper. As …

This book addresses students and researchers of both phonetics and phonology, and the
semantics and pragmatics of discourse. It employs an autosegmental-metrical model of …

1.1 Background 1.1. 1 Anaphora For a long time the study of meaning has been concerned
with single sentences. However, sentences seldom come in isolation. For one thing, they …

First published in 1997, this book focuses on the semantics of definite and indefinite
descriptions—taking the presuppositional theory of definiteness and indefiniteness …

This paper proposes semantic definitions of the twin concepts of'given'and'new'information,
and shows how these definitions can be used to fill a gap in current theories of sentence …

This paper presents experimental results that elucidate some aspects of semantic
processing, ie of the system that allows perceivers to associate an interpretation to a …

This paper presents the Dial-Your-Disc (dyd) system, an interactive system that supports
browsing through a large database of musical information and generates a spoken …