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Noms généraux et anaphore : une histoire de parties et de membres [PDF]
The 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
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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Abstract Based on an analysis of the Old Literary Tibetan corpus—a corpus of the oldest documented Tibetic language—the present study provides evidence that literary Tibetan v3 verb stems (commonly termed ‘future’) initially encoded passive voice. New arguments put forward in this article range from Trans‐Himalayan nominal morphology to early Tibetan ...
Joanna Bialek
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The abstract usages of the adverbs ovde (here) and tu (tamo) [PDF]
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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‘ZWISCHEN DEN ZEILEN’: A CLOSE READING OF STEFANIE‐LAHYA AUKONGO'S NEUROQUEER POETRY
ABSTRACT This article analyses the multimodal poetry of Stefanie‐Lahya Aukongo (b. 1978) through the framework of neuroqueer theory (e.g. Nick Walker, M. Remi Yergeau), showing how her poetic practice exposes and destabilises socially constructed norms of neurotypicality.
Catherine Smale
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Pronoun Resolution in Turkish: The Interplay of Referential Form, Word Order, and Implicit Causality
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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Topic prominence in Chinese EFL learners’ interlanguage
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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Anaphora and Discourse Structure [PDF]
We argue in this article that many common adverbial phrases generally taken to signal a discourse relation between syntactically connected units within discourse structure instead work anaphorically to contribute relational meaning, with only indirect dependence on discourse structure.
Bonnie L. Webber +3 more
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(Co‐)Reference All the Way Down: A Unified Theory of (Pro) Nominals in Ordinary English
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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Progressions thématiques et anaphorisation. L’apport informationnel des procédés de reprise [PDF]
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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