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Pinning Down the Interaction between Animacy and Syntactic Function in the Interpretation of German and Italian Personal and Demonstrative Pronouns
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Markus Bader; Jacopo Torregrossa; Esther Rinke – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2023
This article investigates how animacy in interaction with the syntactic function of a referent's antecedent determines the interpretation of different types of pronouns and demonstratives in German and Italian. The results of a sentence continuation task conducted in both languages show that Italian null pronouns and German p-pronouns have a…
Descriptors: German, Italian, Contrastive Linguistics, Form Classes (Languages)