“…There is growing evidence that schizophrenia leads to semantic and pragmatic impairments. It has been reported, for instance, that schizophrenic patients overuse expressions with implicit, generic or ambiguous reference (Harvey;Weintraub;Neale, 1982, Rodriguez-Ferrera;McCarthy;McKenna, 2001, Hinzen;Sheehan, 2015), have difficulties with definiteness, ineffectively using indefinite DPs for new information and definite DPs for old information, as well as difficulties with third person pronominal coreference (Rochester;Martin 1979, Harvey;Weintraub;Neale, 1982, Chaika;Lambe, 1989, Çokal et al, 2018, Sevilla et al, 2018, Tovar et al, 2019. It has also been shown that these speakers have difficulties integrating contextual information David, 1998, Kuperberg et al, 2006, being more influenced by lexical meaning (Chapman;Chapman;Miller, 1964), in addition to difficulties using information shared with the interlocutor (Champagne -Lavau;…”