Anaphora, Discourse, and Understanding

Anaphora and deixis are a major research focus in general linguistic theory. Understanding how they operate in communicative contexts is a central target in computational and cognitive linguistics. In this wide-ranging work with appeal for students, academics, and professionals in a variety of fields, Francis Cornish sets out an original theory of anaphora and deixis, and proposes a way of integrating the potential in-context interpretations of given anaphors within an existing model of discourse representation.