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Effects of Contrast on Referential Form: Investigating the Distinction between Strong and Weak Pronouns
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Kaiser, Elsi – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2010
To further our understanding of the nature of the form-function mapping in anaphoric paradigms, this study investigated the referential properties of strong pronouns (long pronouns) in Estonian. Cross-linguistically, 2 main accounts of the long-short distinction have been proposed: the salience account (long pronouns refer to less salient…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Finno Ugric Languages, Semantics, Contrastive Linguistics
Pro-Forms as Projective Devices in Interaction
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Keevallik, Leelo – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2011
Cataphoric pronouns have been characterized as being co-referential with a word that comes later. Considering that talk is produced in real time, with little benefit of knowing what is yet to come, participants understand cataphoric pro-forms to be projecting more talk. Projection is a crucial interactive resource, as it enables speakers to align…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interpersonal Communication, Interaction, Word Order