Factors causing overspecification in definite descriptions

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 43, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 3231-3250

  Koolen, Ruud ^a   Gatt, Albert ^a,b   Goudbeek, Martijn ^a   Krahmer, Emiel ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALTA   (Malta)

Author keywords

Computational models; Definite reference; Maxim of Quantity; Overspecification

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052410154     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2011.06.008     Document Type: Article

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