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  1. Reference determination for demonstrative pronouns
    Author: Bosch, Peter; Umbach, Carla

    This paper discusses results from a corpus study of German demonstrative and personal pronouns and from a reading time experiment in which we compared the interpretation options of the two types of pronouns (Bosch et al. 2003, 2007). A careful review... more

     

    This paper discusses results from a corpus study of German demonstrative and personal pronouns and from a reading time experiment in which we compared the interpretation options of the two types of pronouns (Bosch et al. 2003, 2007). A careful review of exceptions to a generalisation we had been suggesting in those papers (the Subject Hypothesis: "Personal pronouns prefer subject antecedents and demonstratives prefer non-subject antecedents") shows that, although this generalisation correctly describes a tendency in the data, it is quite wrong in claiming that the grammatical role of antecedents is the relevant parameter. In the current paper we argue that the generalisation should be formulated in terms of in-formation-structural properties of referents rather than in terms of the grammatical role of antecedent expressions.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Part of a book; Part of a book
    Format: Online
    DDC Categories: 430
    Subjects: Sprachstatistik; Demonstrativpronomen; Personalpronomen; Referenzidentität; Deutsch
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