LINB06H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Coreference, Referring Expression, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences
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Some nps that get their meaning from the context and discourse around them: e. g. the meaning of the word felicia comes form the situation in which the sentence is uttered: The speaker is assuming that you know who felicia is and that there is somebody called felicia who is contextually relevant. Although you may not have already known that she wrote a paper on zapotec, this sentence informs you that there is some paper in the world that felicia wrote. This kind of np is called a referring expression (or r-expression) The vast majority of nps are r-expression: but it is by no means the case that all nps are r-expression. Consider the case of the np herself. Heidi is an r-expression and gets its meaning form the context, but herself must refer back to. It must get its meaning from a previous word in the sentence.
