ACCESSING NOUN-PHRASE ANTECEDENTS

     Contents
   List of tables
   Acknowledgements
   Introducing Accessibility theory
    0.1 On the role oj context
    0.2 On the nalure of context retrievals
    0.21 A 'geographic'view of coniext
    0.3 Accessibility and Ihe structure of memory
    0.4 Accessibility marking: General predictions
    0.41 The distributional patlern of rejerring exprcssions
    0.42 Factors affecting Accessibility
   Part 1 Discourse references
    1 Low Accessibility referring expressions
    1.1 Definite descriplions
    1.2 Proper names
    1.3 Degrees of Accessibility within Low Accessihility
    Markers
    2 Intermediate Accessibilily referring expressions
    2.l Personal pronouns
    2.2 Demonstrative pronouns
    2.3 Degrees of Accessibilily within Intermediute
    Accessihility 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 scaie
    4.2 The universality of the Accessibilify scale
    4.21 Formulating the Universal Accessibiliiy Claim
    4.3 Concluding remarks
   Part 11 Sentence-level anaphora
    5 Applying Accessibility theory to sentence-level anaphora
    5.1 Gencral predictions
    5.2 Replacing the 'Avoid Pronoun' principle with
    Accessibilily theory
    6 Zero subjects
    6.1 The Accessihility 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 Swilch-Reference systems
    7.2 Clautse-linkage and definite NP anaphora
    7.21 Clause-linkage and Resumptive Pronouns
    7.22 Clause-linkage and backwards anuphora
   Part III On (he 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 Spccial uses of Accessibilify Markers
    9.1 Possible divergences from appropricate Accessibility
    marking
    9.2 Referring to the 'Other' Focus on women
    9.3 Appendix
   Notes
   References
   Sources
   Name index
   Subject index