Kaiser, Elsi (In press). Focusing on pronouns: Consequences of
subjecthood, pronominalization and contrastive focus. To appear in
Language and Cognitive Processes.Download
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Kaiser, Elsi (In Press). Salience and contrast effects in reference
resolution: The interpretation of Dutch pronouns and demonstratives. Language and Cognitive
Processes.
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Kaiser, Elsi (2010). Investigating the Consequences of Focus on the Production and
Comprehension of Referring Expressions. International Review of Pragmatics, 2(2),
266-297. Download pdf
Kaiser, Elsi (2010). Effects of contrast on referential form:
Investigating the distinction between strong
and weak pronouns. Discourse Processes, 47, 480-509. Download pdf
Kaiser, Elsi and John C. Trueswell. (2008) Interpreting pronouns
and demonstratives in Finnish: Evidence for a form-specific approach to
reference resolution. Language and Cognitive Processes, 23(5),
709-748.
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Kaiser, Elsi (2006). Negation and the left periphery in Finnish.
Lingua
116(3):314-350. Download pdf
Kaiser, Elsi and John C. Trueswell (2004) The role of discourse context in the processing of a flexible
word-order language. Cognition 94(2), 113-147. Download pdf
Kaiser, Elsi (2003). Referent Tracking and Pronoun Resolution in Finnish.
WEB-SLS: The European Student Journal of Language and Speech.Download
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Selected book chapters
Kaiser, Elsi (2009). Effects of Anaphoric Dependencies and
Semantic Representations on Pronoun Interpretation. In S.L. Devi, A.
Branco and R. Mitkov (eds). Anaphora Processing and Applications
(Selected papers from the 7th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution
Colloquium),
pp.121-130. Heidelberg: Springer
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Kaiser, Elsi & John C. Trueswell (2011). Investigating the
interpretation of pronouns and demonstratives in Finnish: Going beyond
salience. In E. Gibson & N. Pearlmutter (eds), The processing and
acquisition of reference. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
Kaiser, Elsi & Virve-Anneli Vihman (2006). Invisible Arguments: Effects of
Demotion in Estonian and Finnish. In T. Solstad & B. Lyngfelt (eds),
Demoting the agent: passive and other voice-related phenomena. John
Benjamins.
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Kaiser, Elsi (2006). Noncanonical negation and information structure in
Finnish. In Valeria Molnár. and Susanne Winkler (eds.) The Architecture
of
Focus. Studies in Generative Grammar 82, 265-290. (Series Editors:
Harry
van der Hulst, Henk van Riemsdijk and Jan Koster). Berlin, New York:
Mouton de Gruyter.
Kaiser, Elsi (2003). Encoding (Non)Locality in anaphoric relations. In
Nelson, D. & Manninen, S. (eds.) Generative Approaches to Finnic and
Saami
Linguistics, 269-293. Stanford: CSLI Publications.
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Selected conference proceedings papers
Kaiser, Elsi. (to appear). On the relation between coherence
relations and anaphoric demonstratives in German. To appear in the
Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 15. Saarland University Press:
Saarbruecken, Germany. Download
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Kaiser, Elsi, Jeffrey T. Runner, Rachel S. Sussman & Michael K.
Tanenhaus (2008). The real-time interpretation of pronouns and reflexives:
Structural and semantic information. In Emily Efner & Martin Walkow (eds),
Proceedings of 37th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistics
Society
(NELS), pp.73-85. GLSA, UMass. Abstract
Kaiser, Elsi & Virve Vihman. (to appear). On the referential properties
of Estonian pronouns and demonstratives. To appear in the Proceedings
of the 22nd Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics (Aalborg
University,
June
2006). Download pdf
Kaiser, Elsi, Jeffrey T. Runner, Rachel S. Sussman & Michael K. Tanenhaus
(2006). What influences the referential properties of reflexives and
pronouns in Finnish? In Christian Ebert & Cornelia Endriss (eds),
Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 10, ZAS Working Papers in
Linguistics
vol. 44, 155-169, Berlin. Abstract
Kaiser, Elsi (2006). Effects of topic and focus on salience. In Christian
Ebert & Cornelia Endriss (eds), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
10,
ZAS
Working Papers in Linguistics vol. 44, 139-154, Berlin.
Kaiser, Elsi (in press). (Anti)logophoricity in Finnish. The
Proceedings
from the Main Session of the Chicago Linguistic Society's Fortieth
Meeting. Volume 40-1. Chicago, Ill.: Chicago Linguistic Society.
(Presented April 2004)
Kaiser, Elsi (2005). What the referential properties of the Estonian
pronoun tema can tell us about the role of contrast in pronoun
interpretation. Proceedings of the 28th Penn Linguistics Colloquium. Penn
Working Papers in Linguistics 11(1):113-127. University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia. Abstract
Kaiser, Elsi & John Trueswell (2004). The referential properties of Dutch
pronouns and demonstratives: Is salience enough? Cécile Meier, Matthias
Weisgerber (ed.), Proceedings of the Conference sub8 Sinn und
Bedeutung,
137-149. Arbeitspapier Nr. 177, FB Sprachwissenschaft. Konstanz, Germany:
Universität Konstanz.
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Kaiser, Elsi & Katrin Hiietam (2004). A Typological Comparison of Third
Person Pronouns in Finnish and Estonian. In A. Dahl, K. Bentzen & P.
Svenonius (ed.), Nordlyd 31(4), Proceedings of the Workshop on
Generative
Approaches to Finnic Languages, 654-667.
Kaiser, Elsi (2004). A Question of Case. In A. Dahl, K. Bentzen & P.
Svenonius (ed.), Nordlyd 31(4), Proceedings of the Workshop on
Generative Approaches to Finnic Languages, 694-707. Download
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Kaiser, Elsi (2002) Case Alternations and NPIs in Questions in Finnish.
WCCFL 21: Proceedings of the 21st West Coast Conference on Formal
Linguistics, 194-207. Somerville, Mass.: Cascadilla Press. Download
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Kaiser, Elsi (2002) The syntax-pragmatics interface and Finnish
ditransitive verbs. In M. van Koppen, E. Thrift, E. J. van der Torre and
M. Zimmermann (eds.), Proceedings of the 9th Annual Conference of the
Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe (ConSOLE IX).Download
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Kaiser, Elsi (2000) Pronouns and demonstratives in Finnish: Indicators of
Referent Salience. In P. Baker, A. Hardie, T. McEnery and A. Siewierska
(eds.), Proceedings of the Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution
Conference. Lancaster, UK: University Center for Computer Corpus
Research
on Language, Technical Papers vol.12, 20-27.
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Kaiser, Elsi (2000) The discourse functions and syntax of OSV word order
in Finnish. In A. Okrent, and J. Boyle (eds.), The Proceedings from
the
Main Session of the Chicago Linguistic Society's Thirty-sixth Meeting,
vol. 36.1, 179-194. Chicago, Ill.: Chicago Linguistic Society.
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Kaiser, Elsi (2000) A first look at the syntactic structure of
Finnish ditransitive verbs. In J. Haugen & T. Louthain (eds),
Proceedings
of the Twelfth Student Conference in Linguistics. Cambridge, Mass.:
MIT
Working Papers in Linguistics, vol. 38, 111-126.
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