Reference

"The articles in this volume are concerned with some of the central themes and challenges in research on reference within the cognitive sciencesphilosophy (including philosophy of language and mind, logic, and formal semantics), theoretical and computational linguistics, and cognitive psychology. The discussions address four basic questions: What is reference? What is the appropriate analysis of different referring forms, such as definite descriptions? How is reference resolved? and How do speakers/writers select appropriate referring forms, such as pronouns versus full noun phrases,…