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Agent-Dependent Metonymy in a Context-Change Model of Communication

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A well-known problem in the semantic interpretation of natural language is presented by the use of referring expressions to not directly point at their intended referents, but at some associated object. Examples are:

  1. (1)

    I’m reading Shakespeare.

  2. (2)

    The London office called.

  3. (3)

    John works for this newspaper

  4. (4)

    Turn up the radio.

  5. (5)

    The buses are on strike.

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Bunt, H., Kievit, L. (2001). Agent-Dependent Metonymy in a Context-Change Model of Communication. In: Bunt, H., Muskens, R., Thijsse, E. (eds) Computing Meaning. Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, vol 77. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0572-2_5

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