Carga informativa y anáfora discursiva: comparación entre el español y el chino mandarín

Abstract

The referential nature of noun phrases is a subject that has been widely discussed in linguistic circles, an issue that is also controversial. This paper analyzes the information load and discourse anaphora using the competition approach and makes a comparison between Spanish and Mandarin. The cross-language comparison confirms that although there are some differences in referential forms, nominal syntagma with incomplete description is often anaphoric in the two languages, because they are expressions with less information and are more dependent on context. In discourse anaphora, people have a natural preference for these less burdened expressions because they can restore the attributes contained in the referents in a more economical way.