Accessing noun-phrase antecedents

Abstract

List of tables. Acknowledgements. Introducing Accessibility theory. 0.1. On the role of context 0.2. On the nature of context retrievals 0.21. A 'geographic' view of context 0.3. Accessibility and the structure of memory 0.4. Accessibility marking: General predictions 0.41. The distributional pattern of referring expressions 0.42. Factors affecting Accessibility Part 1: Discourse references 1. Low Accessibility referring expressions 1.1. Definite descriptions 1.2. Proper names 1.3. Degrees of Accessibility within Low Accessibility Markers 2. Intermediate Accessibility referring expressions 2.1. Personal pronouns 2.2. Demonstrative pronouns 2.3. Degrees of Accessibility within Intermediate Accessibility Markers 3. High Accessibility Markers 3.1. 'Deep anaphora' 3.2. Third-person pronouns 3.3. Degrees of Accessibility within High Accessibility Markers 4. The Accessibility scale 4.1. Constructing the Accessibility scale 4.2. The universality of the Accessibility scale 4.21. Formulating the Universal Accessibility Claim 4.3. Concluding remarks Part 2: Sentence-level anaphora 5. Applying Accessibility theory to sentence-level anaphora 5.1. General predictions 5.2. Replacing the 'Avoid Pronoun' principle with Accessibility theory 6. Zero subjects 6.1. The Accessibility status of AGR types: Focus on Hebrew 6.2. Zero subjects: Focus on Chinese 7. Clause-linkage and anaphoric marking 7.1. Clause-linkage and Switch-Reference systems 7.2. Clause-linkage and definite NP anaphora 7.21. Clause-linkage and Resumptive Pronouns 7.22. Clause-linkage and backwards anaphora Part 3: On the interaction of Accessibility with pragmatic and social factors 8. The role of inferencing 8.1. The use of context in reference resolutions 8.2. Inferred entities 8.3. On so-called presuppositions 9. Special uses of Accessibility Markers 9.1. Possible divergences from appropriate Accessibility marking 9.2. Referring the the 'Other': Focus on women