Testing accessibility: A cross-linguistic comparison of the syntax of referring expressions

Authors

  • Jacopo Torregrossa University of Cologne
  • Christiane Bongartz University of Cologne
  • Ianthi Maria Tsimpli University of Thessaloniki

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3765/exabs.v0i0.3046

Abstract

Focusing on the discourse conditions that license the use of null subjects (pro) in Greek and Italian, this paper shows that the distribution of referring expressions (RE, e.g., overt and null pronoun, clitic, definite description, etc.) does not only depend on the referents’ discourse status (alias accessibility). Syntactic constraints play an important role too.

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Published

2015-04-13