Proceedings of the Konstanz Workshop 'Reference and Anaphorical Relations'

Abstract

The research into the reference of linguistic expressions has a long tradition in logic, epistemology, linguistics and computer science. However, during the research in our project 'Interaktion von Wort-und Satzsemantik' we realized that several aspects of reference in general and of anaphorical reference in particular are unsolved and controversial. Therefore, we invited researchers from various fields including semantics, logic, philosophy, mathematics and computer science to the workshop 'Reference and Anaphorical Relation', which was held at the University of Konstanz in June 1996. The aim of this workshop was to investigate the nature of reference with particular attention to anaphorical relations from different approaches. We hope that this collection of papers reflects the inspiring talks and fruitful discussions at the workshop.