Germanic and Romance Discourse Devices in Acquisition

Abstract

"In a discourse fragment, say a story, we see a set of intended referents (for example: a girl, an attic, a bed, a little bear). The members of that set appear and reappear in changing configurations when the story unfolds. That is due to the fact that the head of each new predicate selects referents for a configuration according to its sub-categorization/theta frame"