Specificity is a semantic-pragmatic notion that distinguishes between different uses or
interpretations of indefinite noun phrases. Roughly speaking, it corresponds to the …

This book provides an introduction to the study of meaning in human language, from a
linguistic perspective. It covers a fairly broad range of topics, including lexical semantics …

François Recanati presents his theory of mental files, a new way of understanding reference
in language and thought. He aims to recast the'nondescriptivist'approach to reference that …

Logical semanticists have standardly analyzed definite and indefinite descriptions as
quantifiers, and definite pronouns as variables. This dissertation explores an alternative …

In this paper we propose six implicationally related cognitive statuses relevant for explicating
the use of referring expressions in natural language discourse. These statuses are the …

The Routledge Dictionary of Language and Linguistics is a unique reference work for
students and teachers of linguistics. The highly regarded second edition of the Lexikon der …

This study focuses on the relation of syntactic and semantic structure. It investigates the
notion that within generative grammar there is a level of linguistic representation Logical …

What does it mean for an NP to be specific? Various assumptions have been made about
specificity. For example, Hellan (1981) and loup (1977) characterize an NP as specific when …

Relative clauses play a hugely important role in analysing the structure of sentences. This
book provides the first evidence that a unified analysis of the different types of relative …

Reference to Abstract Objects in Discourse presents a novel framework and analysis of the
ways we refer to abstract objects in natural language discourse. The book begins with a …