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Workshops on Referential Expressions in Discourse
Referential expressions like definite and indefinite noun phrases, demonstratives, indexicals and proper names exhibit varying degree of context dependence in the computation of their semantic import to the truth conditions of the utterances they occur in. At the same time, their interpretation not only depends on the linguistic and extra-linguistic context, but they also impact the representation of context. Indefinites, for instance, have been analyzed as introducing new discourse referents, whereas definites quite often have an anaphoric interpretation picking up discourse referents introduced by indefinites. At the same time, indefinites can also have discourse linked readings, and they can impose further constraints on the prospective development of the upcoming discourse. Likewise, definites can also be used to introduce discourse new entities either by virtue of uniqueness or presupposition accommodation. Recent research has made more and more clear that there are complex and not yet fully understood phenomena involved in the interpretation of referential expressions in general. The Workshops on Referential Expressions in Discourse (RED) are exploring the different semantic and pragmatic effects of referential expressions, models of discourse structure and different methods to address these questions.
Workshops
- RED-2010 Reference and Discourse Structure
- RED-2011 Indefinites and Beyond
- RED-2013 Indefinites in Discourse
- RED-2014 Indefinites in Discourse Structure
- RED-2015 Partitivität in Turksprachen und anderen altaischen Sprachen
- RED-2016 The grammar of reference: functions, variation, and change
- RED-2017
The grammar of reference and quantification:
functions, variation, and change
Contact
- Prof. Dr. Klaus von Heusinger
- Institut für deutsche Sprache und Literatur-I
- Universität zu Köln
- Albertus-Magnus-Platz
- 50923 Köln
- Klaus. vonHeusinger[at]uni-koeln.de
- Homepage
- Prof. Dr. Edgar Onea
- "Text Structures"
- University of Göttingen
- Nikolausberger Weg 23 / 2.113
- 37073 Göttingen
- edgar.onea@zentr.uni-goettingen.de
- Homepage