Conceptual parallels between event and object reference in English: A new paradigm shows that demonstratives refer to more complex events

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Referring expressions like proforms (“it”) and demonstratives (“that”) are at the center of discourse relationships, yet very little is known about how people resolve reference to events, as opposed to reference to people and objects. Using adverbial referring expression that unambiguously refer to events ("so" and "thus"), and a novel paradigm designed to capture event referent complexity, we ask if the form of the referring expression has an effect on the complexity of the event that comprehenders interpret as the referent. We report a significant main effect of form: interpreted referents of "thus" are more complex than those of "so."

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