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Dictionary of language and linguistics 1154Collinder, B. 1974. Svensk språklära. Stockholm.Holmes, P. and I.Inchliffe. 1993. Swedish: a comprehensive grammar. London.Thorell, O. 1973. Svensk grammatikk. Stockholm.Swedish dictionary. 1995. London.ScandinavianDictionaryswitch reference1 Grammatical coding in subordinate or paratactical clauses ( subordinate clause)that expresses whether, for example, the subject of this clause is referentially identicalwith the subject of the main clause or not. The latter case is termed switch reference in anarrower sense; cf. Lango (Nilo-Saharan) Dákó òpòyò ní (‘The woman remembers that’)ècégò dógólà (‘she closed the door,’ i.e. the woman herself) vs òcègò dógólá (‘he/sheclosed the door,’ i.e. someone else). Switch reference is widespread, e.g. in languages ofNew Guinea, Australia, America, and Africa.2 In discourse grammar, the structured presentation of information from utterance toutterance in a text. The information contained in an utterance can be classified accordingto different referential domains such as time, place, person, object. The switch referencewithin these domains is comprehended by means of descriptive categories such as‘introduction’, ‘reception’, ‘postponement’. In the framework of discourse analysis, theconcept of switch reference is used to describe characteristic features of text types. Oneproceeds from the assumption that a specific communicative objective, the ‘text question’provides certain ‘givens’ with regard to the text structure which are then comprehendedas models of switch reference ( coherence, text typology).ReferencesFiner, D.L. 1985. The formal grammar of switch reference. New York.Givón, T. 1982. Topic continuity in discourse. The functional domain of switch reference. InJ.Haiman and P.Munro (eds), Switch reference and universal grammar. Amsterdam. 51–82.Heydrich, W. et al. (eds) 1989. Connexity and coherence. Berlin.Marslen-Wilson, W. et al. 1982. Producing interpretable discourse: the establishment andmaintenance of reference. In R.Jarvella and W.Klein (eds), Speech, place and action. NewYork. 339–78.Stirling, L. 1993. Switch reference and discourse representation. Cambridge.Tomlin, R.S. 1985. Foreground-background information and the syntax of subordination. Text 5.85–122.