Manfred Consten

List of John Benjamins publications for which Manfred Consten plays a role.

Title

Anaphors in Text: Cognitive, formal and applied approaches to anaphoric reference

Edited by Monika Schwarz-Friesel, Manfred Consten and Mareile Knees

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 86] 2007. xvi, 282 pp.
Subjects Cognitive linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

Articles

Consten, Manfred 2023 Who creates reference? Reference as an interactive procedure in discourseReference: From conventions to pragmatics, Gardelle, Laure, Laurence Vincent-Durroux and Hélène Vinckel-Roisin (eds.), pp. 269–285 | Chapter
This contribution sketches the role of hearers in the long history of reference research. Canonical approaches from semantics and (early) pragmatics as well as cognitive approaches are discussed with respect to the increasing role that hearers play in these various notions of reference. In the… read more
Consten, Manfred and Mareile Knees 2008 9. Complex anaphors in discourseConstraints in Discourse, Benz, Anton and Peter Kühnlein (eds.), pp. 181–199 | Article
Averintseva-Klisch, Maria and Manfred Consten 2007 The role of discourse topic and proximity for demonstratives in German and RussianInformation Structuring Resources in Contrast, Behrens, Bergljot, Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen, Hilde Hasselgård and Stig Johansson (eds.), pp. 221–240 | Article
This article discusses the textual functions of demonstratives in German and Russian in terms of ‘discourse topicality’ and ‘proximity’, thus covering a broad range of referential phenomena within a unified approach. It shows that — in spite of important grammatical differences between German and… read more
Consten, Manfred, Mareile Knees and Monika Schwarz-Friesel 2007 The function of complex anaphors in texts: Evidence from corpus studies and ontological considerationsAnaphors in Text: Cognitive, formal and applied approaches to anaphoric reference, Schwarz-Friesel, Monika, Manfred Consten and Mareile Knees (eds.), pp. 81–102 | Article
Complex anaphors are nominal expressions that pick up sentential or longer antecedents referring to propositionally structured referents such as events and states. Concerning their textual function, complex anaphors do not only serve as a means of continuity but also effect the progression of the… read more
Schwarz-Friesel, Monika, Manfred Consten and Mareile Knees 2007 Anaphors in text – IntroductionAnaphors in Text: Cognitive, formal and applied approaches to anaphoric reference, Schwarz-Friesel, Monika, Manfred Consten and Mareile Knees (eds.), pp. vii–xvi | Miscellaneous
Consten, Manfred 2003 10. Towards a unified model of domain-bound referenceDeictic Conceptualisation of Space, Time and Person, Lenz, Friedrich (ed.), pp. 223–248 | Article