Reference to Abstract Objects in Discourse
Studies in linguistics and philosophyPublished 1 January 1993
Nicholas Asher
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A tour of Abstract Entities, Eventualities and the Nominals that Denote them and applications of the Theory of Discourse Structure to Concept Anaphora and VP Ellipsis and its Philosophical Implications.
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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 typology of abstract o
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