Coreference resolution aims at resolving repeated references to an object in a document
and forms a core component of natural language processing (NLP) research. When used as …

We discuss problems familiar from the literature on presupposition and information structure,
and illustrate how a synthesis using the Question Under Discussion (QUD) framework yields …

Introduction to Pragmatics guides students through traditional and new approaches in the
field, focusing particularly on phenomena at the elusive semantics/pragmatics boundary to …

Grammaticalization refers to the change whereby lexical terms and constructions serve
grammatical functions in certain linguistic contexts and, once grammaticalized, continue to …

Over the past twenty years, relevance theory has become a key area of study within
semantics and pragmatics. In this comprehensive new textbook, Billy Clark introduces the …

It is by now a well-known topic in semantics that there are striking similarities between the
meanings of nominal and verbal expressions, insofar as the massrcount distinction in the …

Yan Huang's highly successful textbook on pragmatics-the study of language in use-has
been fully revised and updated in this second edition. It includes a brand new chapter on …

Understanding Utterances Page 1 Understanding Utterances Diane Blakemore Bwlkecba
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Even though the relevance of non-truth-conditional notions like'topic'and'focus' in sentence
structure and interpretation has long been'recognized, there is little agreement on the exact …

" Grammaticalization", as used in this paper, refers primarily to the dynamic, unidirectional
historical process whereby lexical items in the course of time acquire a new status as …