Discovering structure: Person and accessibility
-
Altmetric Citations
Travis, Catherine; Torres Cacoullos, Rena
Description
We probe grammatical person differences comparing 3sg with 1sg in actual language use, utilizing subject pronoun expression in Spanish. We reconfigure the familiar constraint of accessibility to distinguish between clause linking (prosodic and syntactic connectedness) in coreferential contexts and distance from the previous mention (intervening clauses) in non-coreferential contexts. This refinement reveals that accessibility impacts 1sg earlier than 3sg, for which the pronoun rate rises more...[Show more]
Collections | ANU Research Publications |
---|---|
Date published: | 2018 |
Type: | Book chapter |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/157102 |
Book Title: | Questioning Theoretical Primitives in Linguistic Inquiry: Papers in honor of Ricardo Otheguy |
DOI: | 10.1075/sfsl.76.05tra |
Download
File | Description | Size | Format | Image |
---|---|---|---|---|
01_Travis_Discovering_structure%3A_Person_2018.pdf | 3.96 MB | Adobe PDF | Request a copy |
Items in Open Research are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.
Updated: 17 November 2022/ Responsible Officer: University Librarian/ Page Contact: Library Systems & Web Coordinator