Remarks on Coreference 1976

The Use of Contextual Information by Right Brain-Damaged Individuals in the Resolution of Ambiguous Pronouns

“…Ali three groups were found to choose the preferred referent significantly more often than the non-preferred referenl The only exception to this were subjects in the LBD group who were not as sensitive to the information provided in sentences which only weakly favored the second noun phrase as the preferred referenl Thus, although the LBD group showed a sensitivity to the pragrnatic information contained in the leading sentence, it was not as great as that exhibited by bath the NBD and RBD groups. This pattern of performance was , 1976;Deloche & Seron, 1981;Heeschen, 1980;Kudo, 1984) who have found improved sentence processing by LBD patients when interpretation is constrained by the plausibility of the events depicted (for example, in…”

“…Of course, more formal generative accounts have also been offered (e.g. Langacker, 1969;Lasnik, 1976;Reinhart, 1983) which have postulated structural conditions which permit and constrain pronominal reference. In addition to these lexical/syntactic factors, a semantic factor, termed implicit causality, has also been identified as influencing pronoun resolution.…”

The Development of the specified subject conditions and the tensed s-condition / propostional islan condition

“…Chomsky (1976a: 323) returns to Coreference Assignment, claiming that his observation that Coreference Assignment presents a problem for his theory "was simply an error". He now claims, following Lasnik (1976), that the rule of anaphora which (optionally) associates he/him and John in (77) is not a rule of sentence grammar. In an interpretive rule, we may say that X and Yare involved if the rule establishes a relation of anaphora or control relating X and Y.…”

The distinction and between persons and things in portuguese pronouns

“…This rule, of course, applies after the rules of coreference. Lasnik (1976) argued against the necessity of two rules, one of coreference and another of noncoreference (for him, Jackendoff'scoreference rule is superfluous) and stated one only rule of Noncoreference, which Bresnan (1978) adopts:…”