Abstract
I examine how discourse anaphoric uses of the definite pronoun it contrast with similar uses of the demonstrative pronoun thai. Their distinct contexts of use are characterized in terms of two contextual features-perslstence of grammatical subject and persistence of gr,~mmatical form-which together demonstrate very clearly the interrelation among lexical choice, grammatical choices and the dimension of time in signalling the dynamic attentional state of a discourse.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 51-59 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics |
| Volume | 1989-June |
| State | Published - 1989 |
| Event | 27th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 1989 - Vancouver, United States Duration: Jun 26 1989 → Jun 29 1989 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Computer Science Applications
- Linguistics and Language
- Language and Linguistics