How does the Text Level Influence the Third Person Anaphora in Chinese Texts
LI Ron · Hanyu xuexi · 2013
Through corpus study,we find a rule of the correspondence between the expression types of anaphora and the level of the text.The zero anaphors are usually used in the clause,and pronouns or NPs are always used in the utterance level.Furthermore,we find whether the topic continues or shifts would affect the third person anaphora forms.Then,we arrived at a text level sequence which used different third person anaphora forms.In addition,we also find the anaphora sequence that occurs most frequently in the topic chain.The findings will benefit computer anaphora processing and teaching Chinese as a second language.