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On the Reflexive KENDİ in Turkish Sign Language [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Linguistic analysis is improved when it includes language beyond the spoken modality. This paper uses sign language data to explore and advance cross-linguistic typologies of reflexives, constructions expressing that co-arguments of a predicate are also ...
Demet Kayabaşı, Natasha Abner
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Addressees Are Sensitive to the Presence of Gesture When Tracking a Single Referent in Discourse [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Production studies show that anaphoric reference is bimodal. Speakers can introduce a referent in speech by also using a localizing gesture, assigning a specific locus in space to it.
Sandra Debreslioska +4 more
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L1 grammatical attrition through the acquisition of competing L2 discourse features [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyA question in language acquisition research is whether attrition can affect L1 grammatical representation, and if so, under what conditions. This paper tests the Attrition via Acquisition (AvA) model, which takes a Feature Reassembly approach to predict ...
Liz Smeets
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The interpretative options of anaphoric complex demonstratives
Glossa, 2022 In this paper, we present experimental evidence from a ‘yes’/‘no’ judgement task and two acceptability rating studies (Experiments 1a-c) for the claim made in Hinterwimmer (2019) that sentences with two anaphorically interpreted complex demonstratives ...
Stefan Hinterwimmer, Umesh Patil
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Pseudo Incorporation and Anaphoricity: Evidence from Persian
Glossa, 2021 The paper investigates the discourse effects of bare nominal pseudo-incorporated objects in Persian. Contrary to claims that such nominals cannot be antecedents to anaphora, experimental results show that that their anaphoric potential is only somewhat ...
Fereshteh Modarresi, Manfred Krifka
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Discourse anaphoricity vs. perspective sensitivity in emoji semantics
Glossa, 2023 This paper aims to provide a foundation for studying the interplay between emoji and linguistic (natural language) expressions; it does so by proposing a formal semantic classification of emoji- text combinations, focusing on two core sets of emoji: face
Elsi Kaiser +2 more
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What does that Lugwere demonstrative refer to? A semantic analysis of proximity and exteriority
Studies in African Linguistics, 2019 The Bantu language Lugwere (Uganda, JE17) has what at first sight appears to be a typical three-way distinction in its demonstratives, with a proximal, medial, and distal series of demonstratives.
Dorothy Ahn, Jenneke van der Wal
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Languages, 2022 The previous literature established the set of ‘perfect’ readings, including experiential/existential, resultative, recent past, hot news, the Present Perfect Puzzle, the lifetime effect, and the lack of narrative progression.
Ruoying Zhao
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On finite subject-to-object raising in Spanish
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2020 In this paper, we analyze inflected complements of perceptive, causative and permissive verbs in which the null subject is obligatorily co-referent with the matrix object antecedent.
Peter Herbeck
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Presupposition Accommodation of the German Additive Particle auch (= “too”)
Frontiers in Communication, 2019 Presupposition triggers differ with respect to whether their presupposition is easily accommodatable. The presupposition of focus-sensitive additive particles like also or too is often classified as hard to accommodate, i.e., these triggers are ...
Mira Grubic, Marta Wierzba
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