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On Issue of Semantics and Pragmatics of Reflexive Constructions
SHS Web of Conferences, 2018 The article describes semantics and pragmatics of reflexive constructions. Common notes on the semantics of reflexivity are given. Reflexivity reflects specific subject-object relationships demonstrated in explicitly and implicitly reflexive ...
Korepina Natalia A.
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O discurso como objeto-de-discurso em expressões nominais anafóricas
Cadernos de Estudos Lingüísticos, 2011 This paper focuses on anaphoric nominal expressions in order to distinguish the specific characteristics presented by expressions of metadiscursive nature in the process of textual references construction and referention progression.
Clélia Cândida Abreu Spinardi Jubran
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Etude de la séquence tout ça : l’anaphore résomptive en question [PDF]
Studii de Lingvistica, 2022 This article focuses on the anaphoric use of the French demonstrative pronoun ça, specifically on the phrase tout ça. The demonstrative pronoun often acts as a resumptive pronoun, this use being reinforced by the presence of the adjective tout.
Zoé Maillard
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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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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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Anaphora and the logic of change [PDF]
, 1991 This paper shows how the dynamic interpretation of natural language introduced in work by Hans Kamp and Irene Heim can be modeled in classical type logic. This provides a synthesis between Richard Montague's theory of natural language semantics and the work by Kamp and Heim.
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How About Ellipsis?: Young Children's Subject Bias in Interpreting Ambiguous “How About” Questions
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 1559, Issue 1, May 2026.ABSTRACT Ellipsis refers to the omission of words or phrases, requiring listeners to fill in the missing elements from earlier in the conversation. Ambiguity in elliptical questions, such as “How about X,” has received little attention in research on children's testimony.
Breanne E. Wylie +3 more
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Approaches to Anaphora Resolution in a Natural Language Database Management System
Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1986 This paper describes in detail the computational process of finding the non-indexical linguistic objects to which pronoun anaphoras resolve. The successful development of discrete steps for anaphora resolution is critical for any natural language ...
Nara, Hiroshi
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Philosophy Compass, Volume 21, Issue 3, May/June 2026.ABSTRACT Context collapse occurs when the contents of distinct conversations mix, either by the flattening of multiple contexts together (fusion) or the leaking of one set's contents into another (fission). After critically surveying the nascent literature, this essay proposes a unified model of context collapse incorporating details from its origin in
A. G. Holdier
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Procédures référentielles indexicales, relations rhétoriques et structuration du discours
Discours, 2015 This article argues that it is not the indexical expression in and of itself (whether a 3rd person pronoun, etc.) which fulfils the indexical referring function, whether it is deixis, “anadeixis” or anaphora; but rather the indexical procedure chosen by ...
Francis Cornish
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