ABSTRACT
The study of anaphora has long been the focus of considerable research in various fields because of its importance to our understanding of the relationship between language and cognition. This chapter explores one particular anaphoric form – zero anaphora – in Chinese discourse, and discusses central issues concerning when and how speaker/writers decide to use a zero anaphor, among several available linguistic forms, to refer to an entity in an ongoing discourse so that their hearer/readers can uniquely and quickly identify the referent of the ellipsis, and what motivates them to do so in the reference tracking process.
