This volume presents a series of studies which analyze the anaphoric relationship in French from a non-traditional angle. Concentrating on indirect anaphora and bridging phenomena rather than on "classical" anaphoric expressions whose referent does not change, they analyze the anaphoric use of expressions such as I'un / l'autre, le premier / le second and le meme rather than the well-known pronouns and noun phrases. Furthermore, they look at the anaphorical functioning of expressions such as en or ca in order to get a better grasp of their nature and use rather than having it the other way...

As of Volume 9 (1994/95) John Benjamins Publishing Company is the official publisher of the Belgian Journal of Linguistics, the annual publication of the Linguistic Society of Belgium. Each volume is topical and includes selected papers from the international meetings organised by the LSB.

As of Volume 9 (1994/95) John Benjamins Publishing Company is the official publisher of the Belgian Journal of Linguistics, the annual publication of the Linguistic Society of Belgium. Each volume is topical and includes selected papers from the international meetings organised by the LSB.
The objective of this collection of essays is to show the ways in which anaphoric expressions contribute to the coherence, or possibly the incoherence, of discourse. Coherence can be viewed as a general interpretive principle that hearers follow in integrating information from current clauses and...

As of Volume 9 (1994/95) John Benjamins Publishing Company is the official publisher of the Belgian Journal of Linguistics, the annual publication of the Linguistic Society of Belgium. Each volume is topical and includes selected papers from the international meetings organised by the LSB.