This paper presents the second release of arrau, a multigenre corpus of anaphoric
information created over 10 years to provide data for the next generation of …

This paper is concerned with the meaning, function and form of noun phrases headed by
abstract nouns such as objective, problem or assumption. These nouns, labelled here as …

This article provides an extensive overview of the literature related to the phenomenon of
non-nominal-antecedent anaphora (also known as abstract anaphora or discourse deixis), a …

Encapsulators are cohesive noun phrases that compress the content of discursive segments
of predicative nature. Their persuasive potential has been extensively highlighted in the …

Despite the growth of interest in the phenomenon of shell-nounhood in academic discourse,
research has been primarily concerned with published research articles. This contrasts with …

Shell nouns are abstract nouns, such as fact, issue, idea, and problem, which, among other
functions, facilitate efficiency by avoiding repetition of long stretches of text. An example is …

The aim of this article is to discover the determining factors for the use of exophoric, nominal
demonstratives in Spoken Jordanian Arabic (SJA). The focus is on demonstratives that are …

Las lenguas disponen de variados mecanismos de cohesión textual. Uno de ellos, que
aquí, en ausencia de unanimidad en la terminología, denominaremos encapsulación …

Diskursdeixis ist ein Teil der Deixis, dem in der Forschung bislang nur wenig
Aufmerksamkeit zuteil geworden ist. Zudem blieb die bisherige Auseinandersetzung mit …

In this chapter we review the currently available corpora to study anaphoric interpretation,
and the tools that can be used to create new ones. A comprehensive survey of annotated …