A Corpus-Based Study

Starting in the early 1990s, work began at Lancaster University on the annotation of corpus data for the purpose of examining coreference in corpora of English (Fligelstone 1992). This work continued throughout the 1990s (McEnery, Tanaka, and Botley 1997; Garside, Fligelstone, and Botley 1997; Botley 1999), and this article represents part of its output. In this article, we will focus on one aspect of our work—the annotation and subsequent exploration of demonstrative pronouns (this, that, these, and those)—in three 100,000-word corpora of English.

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