Anaphora with demonstrative pronoun овај/ ова/ ово in Serbian
Anaphora with demonstrative pronoun овај/ ова/ ово in Serbian

Summary/Abstract: The paper examines anaphoric use of the demonstrative pronoun овај/ова/ово in Serbian. We compiled a sample from the electronic corpus Serbian Web Corpus to explore the co-reference established by the anaphoric use of the demonstrative and the contexts in which it is employed. Both intersentential and intra-sentential usages are taken into consideration of the phrases овај/ова/ово + Ø and овај/ова/ово + noun. We also observe the interpretation, additional associations and the semantic prosody of the anaphor in certain contexts. The analysis has indicated that the demonstrative is used anaphorically in narrative and informative texts, with negative semantic prosody in the former and positive prosody in the latter, and that the anaphor is not merely an instrument of the resolution of a non-salient antecedent.

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