Eintrag

Titel

Noun phrases, pronouns and anaphoric reference in young children narratives

Personen

Insa Gülzow, Natalia Gagarina

Jahr

2007

Typ

Aufsatz

Verlag

Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS)

Ort

Berlin

Seiten

203 - 223

In

Intersentential Pronominal Reference in Child and Adult Language. Proceedings of the Conference on Intersentential Pronominal Reference in Child and Adult Language

Sprache(n)

Bulgarisch
Russisch

Schlagwörter

Nominalgruppe
Pronomen

Abstract

This paper deals with the development of discourse competence in German-, Rus-sian- and Bulgarian-speaking children. In particular, it examines the use of ana-phoric pronominal reference in elicited narrations of children between the ages of 2;6 and 6;0. As the pronominal (and nominal) systems of target German, Russian and Bulgarian differ in the repertoire and functions of anaphoric elements we will examine which kind of noun phrases children use to make reference to story par-ticipants. In a second step of the analysis, we will investigate how pronominal ex-pressions relate to antecedents. In this respect the pronominal form of the anaphor, the syntactic function of the antecedent and the distance between antecedent and anaphor will be analyzed. The findings will be discussed with regard to predic-tions made by proposals such as the Complementary Hypothesis (Bosch, Rozario, and Zhao 2003) which assumes an asymmetry between the use of personal pro-nouns and demonstrative pronouns when referring back to subject or object ante-cedents.

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