Cognitive Status, Information Structure, and Pronominal Reference to Clausally Introduced Entities

Authors:
Jeanette K. Gundel;Michael Hegarty;Kaja Borthen
Affiliations:
Linguistics, University of Minnesota, 204 Nolte Center, 315 Pillsbury Ave. S.E., Minneapolis, MN 55455, U.S.A. E-mail: gunde003@umn.edu;Department of English, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, U.S.A. E-mail: mhegar1@lsu.edu;Department of Linguistics, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway. E-mail: kaja.borthen@hf.ntnu.no
Venue:
Journal of Logic, Language and Information
Year:
2003

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Abstract

This paper investigates reference to clausally introduced entities and proposes an explanation for why these are more readily available to immediate subsequent reference with a demonstrative pronoun than with the personal pronoun,it. New evidence is provided supporting proposals that such entities are typically activated, but not brought into focus, upon their introduction into a discourse. The study also provides further insight into the role of information structure, lexical semantics, presuppositional contexts, and syntactic structure in bringing an entity into focus of attention.