Barbara Abbott
# Barbara Abbott

Barbara Kenyon Abbott é uma linguista estadunidense conhecida por seus trabalhos em semântica, pragmática e filosofia da linguagem. É professora emérita da Universidade Estadual de Michigan.

## Bibliografia selecionada
#### Livros

* 2010. Reference. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

#### Artigos

* 2008. “Presuppositions and Common Ground,” Linguistics and Philosophy.
* 2006. “Definite and Indefinite," Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics.
* 2004. “Definiteness and Indefiniteness,” The Handbook of Pragmatics.
* 2003. "A reply to Szabo's 'Descriptions and uniqueness'," Philosophical Studies.
* 2003. "Some notes on quotation," Belgian Journal of Linguistics.
* 2002. "Definiteness and Proper Names: Some Bad News for the Description Theory," Journal of Semantics.
* 2002. "Donkey Demonstratives," Natural Language Semantics.
* 2000. “Presuppositions as nonassertions,” Journal of Pragmatics.
* 1999. “Water = H2O," Mind.
* 1999. "Support for a unique theory of definiteness," Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistics Theory (SALT) 9.
* 1997. “A note on the nature of 'Water'," Mind.
* 1997. “Definiteness and existentials,” Language.
* 1996. "Doing without a partitive constraint," In J. Hoeksema (ed.) Partitives: Studies on the Syntax and Semantics of Partitive and Related Constructions.
* 1995. "Some remarks on specificity," Linguistic Inquiry.
* 1993. “A pragmatic account of the definiteness effect in existential sentences,” Journal of Pragmatics.
* 1976. "Right node raising as a test for constituenthood," Linguistic Inquiry.