We’ve seen in sections 3 and 4 above how anaphora resolution is constrained by accessibility. But there are many other factors that play a role in the resolution process, from local, grammatical factors like subject antecedents being generally more prominent than object antecedents in pronoun resolution, to more global, discourse structural factors. Focusing on the latter, Hobbs (1979) argues that the interpreter’s desire to create a maximally coherent interpretation will often play a decisive role in choosing between multiple accessible antecedents for a pronoun, as he illustrates with the following contrast: