Abstract
The present article studies the use of demonstrative NP anaphors, demN, in a corpus of French and Norwegian texts belonging to the domain of scientific economic discourse. The introduction of the concept of discourse makes it possible to enlarge the traditional lexical and syntactic perspective in order to evaluate to what degree differences between the uses of demN in the two corpuses of texts can be explained by linguistic and/or discursive factors. Among the linguistic factors is the tendency in French , and romance languages in general, to lexicalisé nouns, and hence anaphors, at a more specific level than Norwegian, i.e., Germanic languages, and also the preference for hierarchical, hypotactic presentation of information in desententialised constructions in French as compared to linear, paratactic ordering in Norwegian, which has an impact on the number of realised syntactic subjects.
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