Accessing Noun-Phrase Antecedents (Rle Linguistics B: Grammar)

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The book presents a transformative approach to discourse anaphora, shifting from a pragmatic to a cognitive framework centered on memory processing. It defines referring expressions as indicators of the accessibility of antecedents in memory, leading to new insights and predictions about their distribution in discourse. The author identifies universal principles governing anaphoric relations across languages, revealing that despite variations in markers and functions, all languages adhere to a consistent hierarchy of Accessibility marking.