Discovering structure: Person and accessibility

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dc.contributor.authorTravis, Catherine
dc.contributor.authorTorres Cacoullos, Rena
dc.contributor.editorNaomi L. Shin
dc.contributor.editorDeniel Erker
dc.date.accessioned2019-03-13T03:18:58Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.date.updated2019-03-12T07:45:34Z
dc.description.abstractWe 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 slowly with increasing distance. At the same time, for pronominal and unexpressed subjects, a greater proportion of 3sg than 1sg occurs in coreferential contexts. 3sg pronominal and unexpressed subjects thus tend to cluster more closely. By these differences in the workings of accessibility and in contextual distribution, unlike speech act participant 1sg, 3sg is a transient person in discourse.en_AU
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_AU
dc.identifier.isbn9789027201676en_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/157102
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.publisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Companyen_AU
dc.relation.ispartofQuestioning Theoretical Primitives in Linguistic Inquiry: Papers in honor of Ricardo Otheguyen_AU
dc.relation.isversionof1st Edition
dc.rights© 2018 John Benjamins B. V.en_AU
dc.titleDiscovering structure: Person and accessibilityen_AU
dc.typeBook chapteren_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage90en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.placeofpublicationUnited States
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage67en_AU
local.contributor.affiliationTravis, Catherine, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationTorres Cacoullos, Rena, Pennsylvania State Universityen_AU
local.contributor.authoremailrepository.admin@anu.edu.auen_AU
local.contributor.authoruidTravis, Catherine, u3487939en_AU
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIESen_AU
local.description.refereedYes
local.identifier.absfor200408 - Linguistic Structures (incl. Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics)en_AU
local.identifier.absseo950202 - Languages and Literacyen_AU
local.identifier.ariespublicationu9803255xPUB2358en_AU
local.identifier.doi10.1075/sfsl.76.05traen_AU
local.identifier.uidSubmittedByu9803255en_AU
local.type.statusPublished Versionen_AU

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