Foregrounding Referents: A Reconsideration of Left Dislocation in Discourse
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Discourse Referents
Consider an interoretive device that in some manner keeps track of individuals that have been mentioned iu a discourse and what has been said about them. One feature any such device must have is to he able to recognize wPen a novel individual aopears in so~e sentence. For examole, in Drocessin~ sentence (1), it N~st recognize that the NP a car refers to some yet unmentioned object, which in the...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2377-1666,0363-2946
DOI: 10.3765/bls.v2i0.2290