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When Wide Scope Is Not Enough: Scope and Topicality of Discourse Referents

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Logic, Language and Meaning

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This paper analyses the semantic attributes discourse referents in Catalan Sign Language may have in order to have a corresponding location established in sign space. It is argued that a combination of scope and topicality is required when analysing the correlation between the introduction of entities into the discourse and assigning a spatial location.

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  1. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Roc Boronat, 138, Barcelona, Spain

    Gemma Barberà

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  1. ILLC, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098 XH, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Maria Aloni , Floris Roelofsen , Galit W. Sassoon , Katrin Schulz  & Matthijs Westera , , ,  & 

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    Vadim Kimmelman

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Barberà, G. (2012). When Wide Scope Is Not Enough: Scope and Topicality of Discourse Referents. In: Aloni, M., Kimmelman, V., Roelofsen, F., Sassoon, G.W., Schulz, K., Westera, M. (eds) Logic, Language and Meaning. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7218. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31482-7_7

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