%0 Report %@ 419 %A Hobbs, Jerry R. %T Implicature and Definite Reference %C 333 Ravenswood Ave., Menlo Park, CA 94025 %I AI Center, SRI International %D 1987 %K Natural Language!Implicature, Natural Language!Definite Reference %X An account is given of the appropriateness conditions for definite reference, in terms of the operations of inference and implicature. It is shown how a number of problematic cases noticed by Hawkins can be explained in this framework. In addition, the use of unresolvable definite noun phrases as a literary device and definite noun phrases with nonrestrictive material can be explained within the same framework. %U http://www.ai.sri.com/pubs/files/546.pdf
