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Pronoun Resolution in Turkish: The Interplay of Referential Form, Word Order, and Implicit Causality
Cognitive Science, Volume 50, Issue 6, June 2026.Abstract Pronouns are a ubiquitous part of discourse, but unusual in that their meaning is almost entirely determined by context. While early theorists hoped to explain pronouns based on a small number of simple principles, the last half‐century of research has revealed a cornucopia of influences at the syntactic, semantic, discourse, and pragmatic ...
Duygu Sarısoy +2 more
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Noms généraux et anaphore : une histoire de parties et de membres [PDF]
Studii de LingvisticaThe affinities between general nouns and two types of anaphora, resumptive anaphora and co-referential anaphora with lexical shift, are frequently emphasized in studies devoted to this category of nouns.
Mathilde Salles
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Licensing and anaphora in Tenyidie
Glossa, 2022 Tenyidie shows a typologically unusual pattern of φ-covarying agreement with anaphors, but not other arguments. We argue that this apparent agreement actually reveals the nature of anaphoric binding in the language, which involves an Agree relation ...
Andrew Murphy, Savio Meyase
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Remarks on plural anaphora [PDF]
Proceedings of the fourth conference on European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics -, 1989 The interpretation of plural anaphora often requires the construction of complex reference objects (RefOs) out of RefOs which were formerly introduced not by plural terms but by a number of singular terms only. Often, several complex RefOs can be constructed, but only one of them is the preferred referent for the plural anaphor in question.
Carola Eschenbach +3 more
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(Co‐)Reference All the Way Down: A Unified Theory of (Pro) Nominals in Ordinary English
Theoria, Volume 92, Issue 3, June 2026.ABSTRACT This essay joins two themes, both arising from Kripke's inspiring ideas in the theory of reference. The first theme concerns reference in general. The second examines the notion of co‐reference and the role it plays in a unified theory of pronouns for natural language.
Jessica Pepp, Joseph Almog
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The abstract usages of the adverbs ovde (here) and tu (tamo) [PDF]
Južnoslovenski Filolog, 2019 The aim of this paper is to account for the abstract usages of the pronoun adverbs ovde (here) and tu (there) in Serbian. We start with the analysis of their basic spatial meanings which show that ovde is a true deictic expression that, if it is
Ašić Tijanav
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Human tests for machine models: What lies “Beyond the Imitation Game”?
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.Abstract Benchmarking large language models (LLMs) is a key practice for evaluating their capabilities and risks. This paper considers the development of “BIG Bench,” a crowdsourced benchmark designed to test LLMs “Beyond the Imitation Game.” Drawing on linguistic anthropological and ethnographic analysis of the project's GitHub repository, we examine ...
Noya Kohavi, Anna Weichselbraun
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Topic prominence in Chinese EFL learners’ interlanguage
Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2014 The present study aims to investigate the general characteristics of topicprominent typological interlanguage development of Chinese learners of English in terms of acquiring subject-prominent English structures from a discourse perspective.
Shaopeng Li, Lianrui Yang
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Scope as a Source for Non‐Incremental Effects?
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 20, Issue 3, May/June 2026.ABSTRACT Incrementality is one of the hallmarks of realtime language comprehension. It contrasts sharply with another feature of language comprehension, the high degree of context dependence exhibited by many expressions calling for global adaptations to the larger discourse context.
Fabian Schlotterbeck, Oliver Bott
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Progressions thématiques et anaphorisation. L’apport informationnel des procédés de reprise [PDF]
Echo des Etudes Romanes, 2012 The aim of the article is to examine the relation between the functional sentence perspective and the main noun anaphoric devices. The role of anaphoric expressions is observed within the theme-rheme articulation of sentences linked by different types of
Ondřej Pešek
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