Reference to Abstract Objects in Discourse

by Nicholas Asher

Book Overview

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 objects and related entities like eventualities. After an introduction to 'bottom up, compositional' discourse representation theory (DRT) and to previous work on abstract objects in DRT (notably work on the semantics of the attitudes), the book turns...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0792322428
• ISBN13: 9780792322429
• Release Date: April 1993
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 455 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"