Richard Epstein

Epstein, Richard 1999 Roles, Frames and Definiteness Discourse Studies in Cognitive Linguistics: Selected papers from the 5th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Amsterdam, July 1997, Van Hoek, Karen, Andrej A. Kibrik and Leo Noordman (eds.), pp. 53 ff. | Article

Epstein, Richard 1998 Reference and definite referring expressions The Concept of Reference in the Cognitive Sciences, Kronfeld, Amichai and Lawrence D. Roberts (eds.), pp. 189–207 | Article

Definite referring expressions have been studied almost exclusively with respect to their ability to uniquely identify objects. Based on examples of NPs with the drawn from naturally occurring texts, I argue that definite referring expressions serve other functions, as well — they indicate the… read more

Epstein, Richard 1995 The later stages in the development of the definite article: evidence from French Historical Linguistics 1993: Selected papers from the 11th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Los Angeles, 16–20 August 1993, Andersen, Henning (ed.), pp. 159 ff. | Article

Epstein, Richard 1994 The development of the definite article in French Perspectives on Grammaticalization, Pagliuca, William (ed.), pp. 63–80 | Article

Epstein, Richard 1993 The definite article: early stages of development Historical Linguistics 1991: Papers from the 10th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Amsterdam, August 12–16, 1991, Marle, Jaap van (ed.), pp. 111 ff. | Article

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