Information Structure and the Accessibility of Clausally Introduced Referents
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20365112 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Hegarty, Jeanette K Gundel, Jeanette Κ Gundel, Kaja Borthen (0000-0002-1183-6415) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 2-3 |
| Publication date | 2001-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theoretical Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0301-4428 • E-ISSN: 1613-4060 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/thli.2001.27.2-3.163 |
| OpenAlex | W2118265011 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 10 |
This paper will examine the role of various factors in affecting the salience, and hence the accessibility to pronominal reference, of entities introduced into a discourse by a full clause. We begin with the premise that the possibility of pronominal reference with it versus that depends on the cognitive status of the referent, in the sense of Gundel, Hedberg and Zacharski (1993). This formulation of the problem provides grounds for an explanation of the data presented above, and provides a framework within which we examine the role of various other factors in promoting the salience of a clausally introduced entity, including the information structure of the utterance in which the entity is introduced. For entities introduced by clausal complements to bridge verbs, we show that the information structure of the utterance introducing the entity has a partial, or one-sided, effect on the salience of the entity. When the complement clause is focal, the salience of the entity depends only on its referential givenness-newness (in the sense of Gundel 1988, 1999b), as we would expect. But when the complement clause is ground material, the salience of an entity introduced by the clause is enhanced. Other factors, including the presuppositionality of factive and interrogative complements, also serve to enhance the salience of entities introduced by complement clauses.
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Focus
| Citations per year | 0.48 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2003 - 2025 (23) |
| Highly cited | No |