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Controlling Pronoun Number Across Clause Boundaries.
Abstract
Certain threads of discourse meaning are held together by devices like
number agreement. We examined how speakers create number agreement for
two types of pronouns, those with antecedents in a different clause
and those with antecedents in the same clause. To asses grammatical
versus referential control of pronoun agreement, the antecedents
carried conflicting grammatical and notional number. Comparisons with
verb agreement suggested that pronoun number tends to be notionally
controlled, regardless of the antecedent's location.
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