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Choice Functions and the Anaphoric Semantics of Definite NPs

✍ Scribed by Klaus von Heusinger

Publisher
Springer
Year
2004
Tongue
English
Weight
151 KB
Volume
2
Category
Article
ISSN
1570-7075

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✦ Synopsis

This article argues that definite NPs are interpreted depending on contextual salience, rather than on the uniqueness condition of their descriptive content. The salience structure is semantically reconstructed by a global choice function that assigns to each set one (most salient) element. It is dynamically modified by the context change potential of indefinite and definite NPs. The anaphoric potential of definite NPs can be accounted for by the interaction of the context change potential and contextual salience structure.

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