This paper reports on an experimental study of the interpretation of pronouns in
Chinese which provides additional support for the proposal in Yang et al. (1999,
2003) that the resolution of pronominal reference in Chinese is more influenced by
syntactic information than often assumed in approaches to discourse anaphora in
Chinese such as Li and Thompson (1979), Givon (1983), Chen (1986), Christensen
(2000), and Pu (2011), where the interpretation of such elements is solely attributed
to semantic, pragmatic, and discourse structure-related factors. The paper makes use
of a series of sentence completion tasks, adapted from Kehler and Rohde (2013) for
Chinese, to try to tease apart the often complex roles played by syntactic position,
Coherence Relations, and discourse structure

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• Grammatical roles, Coherence Relations, and the interpretation of pronouns in Chinese