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Participant Reference in Discourse: Biblical Hebrew

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Author(s): de Regt, Lénart J.
How are participants introduced into and tracked in a Biblical Hebrew text? When is this done by means of proper names, when by nouns (titles, relationship terms, etc.), and when by pronominal or inflectional elements? The choice between these devices is part of super-sentential grammar. This article discusses both default and marked patterns of participant reference, in that order. 1. Default Patterns In a text, more predictable information is assigned less coding material, while less predictable (more disconti…