Switch-reference and its role in referential choice in Mbyá Guaraní narratives
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/cllt-2020-0028" target="_blank" >10.1515/cllt-2020-0028</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Switch-reference and its role in referential choice in Mbyá Guaraní narratives
Original language description
Switch-reference has been analyzed as a reference tracking mechanism, whose main function is to avoid ambiguity of reference. One domain where this function has been argued to manifest itself is referential choice. Kibrik (Kibrik, Andrej. 2011. Reference in discourse. Oxford: Oxford University Press) notably proposed that switch-reference marking plays the role of a referential aid, which helps to prevent referential conflict, thereby enabling the production of reduced referential expressions such as pronouns and zeros. The present study probes this theory through an analysis of the role of switch-reference marking in multifactorial models of referential choice in Mbyá Guaraní. We show that while switch-reference increases the likelihood of mention reduction in Mbyá Guaraní, this effect is marginal relative to other predictors of referential choice. We argue that this result is compatible with the analysis of switch-reference as a referential aid, but also supports analyses that emphasize the multiplicity of its functions, beyond the disambiguation of reference.
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)
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Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory
ISSN
1613-7027
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
17
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
DE - GERMANY
Number of pages
35
Pages from-to
563-597
UT code for WoS article
000715372400002
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85106376387