On Lexical Cohesive Behavior of Heads of Definite Descriptions: A Case Study
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This paper uses materials from annotation studies of lexical cohesion (Beigman Klebanov and Shamir, 2005) and of definite reference (Poesio and Vieira, 1998; Vieira, 1998) to discuss the complementary nature of the two processes. Juxtaposing the two kinds of annotation provides a unique perspective for observing the workings of the reader’s common-sense knowledge at two levels of text organization: in patterns of lexis and in realization of discourse entities.
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