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Publication details [#23814]

Fraurud, Kari. 1990. Definiteness and the processing of noun phrases in natural discourse. Journal of Semantics 7 (4) : 395–433.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

definite description | definiteness | processing

Journal WWW

www3.oup.co.uk/semant/

Annotation

Starting from the observation that first mention use of definite noun phrases is fairly common, it is shown that their definiteness is but one element in their processing, others being lexico-encyclopaedic knowledge associated with the head noun and a set of currently available anchors.