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Chapter 9. Are referent introductions sensitive to forward planning in discourse?

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2023
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Schnell, S., Haig, G. L. J., Schiborr, N. N., & Vollmer, M. (2023). Chapter 9. Are referent introductions sensitive to forward planning in discourse? In A. Barotto & S. Mattiola (Eds.), Discourse phenomena in linguistic typology (No. 227; Issue 227, pp. 231–268). John Benjamins Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.227.09sch

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It has been argued that speakers employ morphosyntactic structures such as presentationals and left-dislocations (Lambrecht 1994) to establish new entities in discourse due to considerations of referent accessibility vis-à-vis event processing (Du Bois 1987; Chafe 1987). We here investigate whether introductions are sensitive to the salience of the discourse referent in subsequent discourse (Himmelmann 1996; Lichtenberk 1996). This hypothesis is tested against spoken corpus data from twelve diverse languages. While the use of specific

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  • Barotto, Alessandra
  • Mattiola, Simone

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Discourse phenomena in linguistic typology

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Amsterdam & Philadelphia

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231

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268

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English

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2023-03-15

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2023-03-06

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Studies in Language Companion Series

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0165-7763

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9789027212900

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Schnell, S., Haig, G. L. J., Schiborr, N. N., & Vollmer, M. (2023). Chapter 9. Are referent introductions sensitive to forward planning in discourse? In A. Barotto & S. Mattiola (Eds.), Discourse phenomena in linguistic typology (No. 227; Issue 227, pp. 231–268). John Benjamins Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.227.09sch

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