Accessing Noun-Phrase Antecedents offers a radical shift in the analysis of discourse
anaphora, from a purely pragmatic account to a cognitive account, in terms of processing …

The analysis of referring expressions can be divided into two branches for our purposes.
The first includes theories of definite descriptions and proper names. The key to the riddle of …

Although there is no shortage of definitions for pragmatics the received wisdom is
that'pragmatics' simply cannot be coherently defined. In this groundbreaking book Mira Ariel …

Abstract Ariel (1985, 1988) has argued that discourse anaphora is determined by reference
to the notion of accessibility in memory storage. Under the assumption that mental …

Levinson (1985, 1987a & b, 1991) and Ariel (1985a & b, 1987, 1988a & b, 1990a, 1991)
have each proposed to anchor discourse and sentential anaphora within a more general …

While visual signals that accompany spoken language serve to augment the communicative
message, the same visual ingredients form the substance of the linguistic system in sign …

Most of the research on Bantu languages has concentrated on the phonological and
morphological aspects of these languages, while the syntactic issues remain largely …

The study considers children's acquisition of Hebrew, as a language which exhibits several
asymmetries with respect to where zero subjects are required, optional, or disallowed. It …

This paper presents an account of the anaphoricity evident in Left and Right Dislocations in
terms of discourse, rather than sentence anaphora. The constraints on the distribution of the …

The theme of this volume is text representation, or more speciWcally the linguistic and
psycholinguistic aspects thereof. In our view, a text representation is a cognitive entity: a …