Backward- and Forward-Looking Potential of Anaphors

Personal pronouns and demonstratives contribute differently to the encoding of information in the mental model and they serve distinct backward- and forward-looking functions. While (unstressed) personal pronouns are the default means to indicate coreference with the most prominent discourse entity...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Schumacher, Petra B., Backhaus, Jana, Dangl, Manuel
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4655247/