What do subject pronouns do in discourse? Cognitive, mechanical and constructional factors in variation

Travis, Catherine; Torres Cacoullos, Rena

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What do subject pronouns do in discourse? Cognitive, mechanical and constructional factors in variation

Date

2012

Authors

Travis, Catherine

Torres Cacoullos, Rena

Publisher

Mouton de Gruyter

Abstract

In languages with variable subject expression, or pro-drop languages, when do speakers use subject pronouns? We address this question by investigating the linguistic conditioning of Spanish first-person singular pronoun yo in conversational data, testing