"When Jesus was teaching the people in the Temple":Gothic <i>managei </i>‘people’ unmarked and with marked definiteness
The author investigates the use of proto-article with the collective noun managei 'people' in the Gothic Bible and the pragmatic patterns of its distribution. The anaphoric proto-article (pronoun) occurs after the first mention of a group of participants and indicates that the group of participants in the narrative discourse is identifiable and accessible to the hearer. However, anaphoric pronouns cannot be used in the following discourse when the pragmatic accessibility of the referent is violated (when the group can be variable, when the context indicates the change of location etc.). The anaphoric pronoun is also used in the first mention of a group of listeners in a temple or in a house.