ABSTRACT
In the preceding chapters on the acquisition of pronominal reference the focus was on linguistic devices for reference to people at the word level. This chapter goes into reference to people at the discourse level. It deals with the way in which adult language learners represent information linguistically in narrative discourse, i.e. reference to main/minor characters in a narrative. The area of investigation is an extension of 3rd role reference. Besides the set of pronominal forms (i.e the one focussed upon in the previous chapter), alternative encoding devices such as nominal devices and demonstratives are taken into account.
