The Oxford Handbook of Reference

Jeanette Gundel is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, where she has been teaching since 1980. She is also Associate Director of the Center for Cognitive Science and an affiliate member of the Department of Philosophy. Her research focuses primarily on the interface between linguistic theory and pragmatics, especially reference and information structure.Barbara Abbott is an Emeritus Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy at Michigan State University, where she taught from 1976 to 2006. Her main research interests are in semantics, pragmatics, and philosophy of language. She has published multiple journal articles on topics ranging from reference and noun phrase interpretation to conditional sentences, and is the author of Reference (OUP 2010).

• 1: Jeanette Gundel and Barbara Abbott: IntroductionPart I: Foundations. Referential forms and their interpretation2: Peter Hanks: Reference as a speech act3: Michael O'Rourke: Referential intentions4: Anne Bezuidenhout: Joint reference5: Jeanette Gundel, Nancy Hedberg, and Ron Zacharski: Cognitive status and the form of referring expressions in discourse6: Nancy Hedberg, Jeanette Gundel, and Kaja Borthen: Different senses of 'referential'7: Barbara Abbott: Definiteness and familiarity8: Barbara Abbott: The indefiniteness of definiteness9: Klaus von Heusinger: Indefiniteness and specificity10: Ezra Keshet and Florian Schwarz: De re / de dicto11: Leonard Clapp, Marga Reimer, and Ann Spire: Negative existentials12: Ryan B. Doran and Gregory Ward: A taxonomy of uses of demonstratives13: Craige Roberts: Contextual influences on referencePart II: Implications and applications. Processing and acquisition of reference14: Anne Salazar Orvig: Reference and referring expressions in first language acquisition15: Elsi Kaiser and Emily Fedele: Reference resolution: A psycholinguistic perspective16: Jorrig Vogels, Emiel Krahmer, and Alfons Maes: Accessibility and reference production: The interplay between linguistic and non-linguistic factors17: Berit Brogaard: What can neuroscience tell us about reference?18: Christopher Barkley and Robert Kluender: Processing anaphoric relations: An electrophysiological perspective19: Emiel Krahmer and Kees van Deemter: Computational generation of referring expressions: An updated survey20: Tom Williams and Matthias Scheutz: Reference in robotics: A givenness hierarchy theoretic approach21: Kees van Deemter: Computational models of referring: Complications of information sharingReferencesIndex