I.4 “This was a Poet”: Identifying Referents – Definites and Demonstratives

Chapters in this book

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