Introduction : Reference and Discourse Structure *
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* Th e papers collected here are based on presentations at the International Conference on Reference and Discourse Structure , which was organized by Sofi ana Chiriacescu and Klaus von Heusinger at the University of Stuttgart (January 15-17, 2010). We thank all participants of the conference for the lively and constructive discussion and all contributors for writing up their research results for this special issue of the International Review of Pragmatics . We are grateful to Piotr Cap and Ken Turner for their positive reception of our suggestion to guest-edit this special issue and for their help in editing the issue. Th e fi rst author gratefully acknowledges fi nancial support from the German Science Foundation in the form of a grant to the project C2: Case and Referential context , as part of the Collaborative Research Center 732 Incremental Specifi cation in Context at the University of Stuttgart, and the support of the Fritz Th yssen Foundation and the VolkswagenStiftung ( opus magnum ). Introduction: Reference and Discourse Structure *
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