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I.4 “This was a Poet”: Identifying Referents – Definites and Demonstratives
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Foreword V
- Table of Contents VII
- Introduction 1
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Part I: Individual Analyses
- Introduction 13
- I.1 “To pile like Thunder”: Lexical Ambiguity 15
- I.2 “You said that I ‘was Great’”: Scales and Contextual Parameters 26
- I.3 “I’m Nobody!”: Interpreting Quantifiers 41
- I.4 “This was a Poet”: Identifying Referents – Definites and Demonstratives 54
- I.5 “If it had no pencil”: Identifying Referents – Pronouns 79
- I.6 “My Life had stood – a Loaded Gun”: Semantic Mismatches and Coercion 99
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Part II: Emily Dickinson: The Poet as Linguist, and the Linguist as Poet
- II.1 The Poet as Linguist 133
- II.2 The Linguist as Poet 158
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Part III: Benefits of Interdisciplinary Work
- III.1 Poetry as a Data Source for Formal Linguistics 179
- III.2 Formal Linguistics as a Tool in Literary Studies 199
- Appendix 221
- Bibliography 239
- Index 249
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Foreword V
- Table of Contents VII
- Introduction 1
-
Part I: Individual Analyses
- Introduction 13
- I.1 “To pile like Thunder”: Lexical Ambiguity 15
- I.2 “You said that I ‘was Great’”: Scales and Contextual Parameters 26
- I.3 “I’m Nobody!”: Interpreting Quantifiers 41
- I.4 “This was a Poet”: Identifying Referents – Definites and Demonstratives 54
- I.5 “If it had no pencil”: Identifying Referents – Pronouns 79
- I.6 “My Life had stood – a Loaded Gun”: Semantic Mismatches and Coercion 99
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Part II: Emily Dickinson: The Poet as Linguist, and the Linguist as Poet
- II.1 The Poet as Linguist 133
- II.2 The Linguist as Poet 158
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Part III: Benefits of Interdisciplinary Work
- III.1 Poetry as a Data Source for Formal Linguistics 179
- III.2 Formal Linguistics as a Tool in Literary Studies 199
- Appendix 221
- Bibliography 239
- Index 249