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Departing from the postulates of Ruiz de Mendoza and his collaborators on metonymic anaphora (Ruiz de Mendoza 1997, 1999; Ruiz de Mendoza; Otal 2002; Ruiz de Mendoza; Díez 2004), this paper analyzes some of the most outstanding cases of anaphoric ...
Antonio José Silvestre López
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Centering in-the-large: Computing referential discourse segments
We specify an algorithm that builds up a hierarchy of referential discourse segments from local centering data. The spatial extension and nesting of these discourse segments constrain the reachability of potential antecedents of an anaphoric expression ...
Hahn, Udo, Strube, Michael
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In sign language, one may sometimes re-use a locus that originally referred to a spatial location in order to denote an individual found at that location (“Locative Shift”). We suggest that Locative Shift arises when a covert individual-denoting variable
Philippe Schlenker
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Discourse structure and information structure : interfaces and prosodic realization [PDF]
In this paper we review the current state of research on the issue of discourse structure (DS) / information structure (IS) interface. This field has received a lot of attention from discourse semanticists and pragmatists, and has made substantial ...
Jasinskaja, Ekaterina +2 more
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Processing implicit control: evidence from reading times
Sentences such as The ship was sunk to collect the insurance exhibit an unusual form of anaphora, implicit control, where neither anaphor nor antecedent is audible.
Michael eMcCourt +4 more
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Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on Phonetics and Phonological Universals (1998)
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Squib: co-reference and adult language comprehension
There exists a large, rich and varied literature on the processing of pronouns and other anaphoric forms in the adult language comprehension literature.
Lyn Frazier
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