C05 - Discourse referents as perspectival centers - CRC1252 (Prominence in Language)

The main goal of the project is to determine, via acceptability and eye-tracking studies, how the global and local prominence status of discourse referents interact in making them available as perspectival centers with respect to the two types of perspective taking in narrative texts, Free Indirect Discourse and Viewpoint Shifting. On the basis of the experimental results, the formal analysis of Free Indirect Discourse and Viewpoint Shifting, to be developed in the project, will be developed into a dynamic discourse model. For a brief introduction to the project, see