Anaphors in text : cognitive, formal and applied approaches to anaphoric reference / / edited by Monika Schwarz-Friesel, Manfred Consten and Mareille Knees

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910967079603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam, : Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 2007
• ISBN: 9786612154706; 9781282154704; 1282154702; 9789027292582; 9027292582
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: xv, 282 p
• Collana: Studies in language companion series, , 0165-7763 ; ; v. 86
• Classificazione: 17.52
• Altri autori (Persone): Schwarz-FrieselMonika; ConstenManfred; KneesMareile
• Disciplina: 415
• Soggetti: Anaphora (Linguistics); Discourse analysis
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Anaphors in Text -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Anaphors in text - Introduction -- I. Anaphors in Cognitive,Text- and Discourse Linguistics -- Indirect anaphora in text: A cognitive account -- Indirect pronominal anaphora in English and French: Marginal rarity, or unmarked norm? Some psycholinguistic evidence -- Lexical anaphors in Danish and French -- Referential collaboration with computers: Do we treat computer addressees like humans? -- Reflexivity and temporality in discourse deixis -- The function of complex anaphors in texts: Evidence from corpus studies and ontological considerations -- Metaphorical anaphors: A phenomenon of the semantics-pragmatics interface -- II. The Syntax and Semantics of Anaphors -- Accessibility and definite noun phrases -- The non-subject bias of German demonstrative pronouns -- Anaphoric properties of German Right dislocation -- Antecedents of diverse types. An investigation of the syntactic and semantic ; relationships in a wh-relative construction -- Corpus-based and machine learning approaches to anaphora resolution: A critical assessment -- III. Neurolinguistic Studies -- Neuroimaging studies of coherence processes -- Reference assignment in the absence of sufficient semantic content* -- Resolving complex anaphors: Evidence from online comprehension -- Index -- The series Studies in Language Companion Series.
• Sommario/riassunto: This study investigates the question of whether the processing of complex anaphors require more cognitive effort than the processing of NP-anaphors. Complex anaphors refer to abstract objects which are not introduced as a noun phrase and bring about the creation of a new discourse referent. This creation is called "complexation process" (see also Consten et al. this volume). We describe ERP findings which provide converging support for the assumption that the cognitive cost of this complexation process is higher than the cognitive cost of processing NP-anaphors.