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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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Comprehending anaphoric metaphors [PDF]
Memory & Cognition, 2002 In this study we investigate the comprehension of various kinds of anaphoric metaphors in context. We describe an experiment that manipulated the metaphoricity of simple noun + verb + ending sentences by using either a metaphoric noun or a metaphoric verb or both.
Raluca, Budiu, John R, Anderson
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Some notes on word order and interpretation in Dutch and Finnish
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2012 Dutch is typically known to allow scrambling. Finnish on the other hand has a flexible word order. Even though the two languages differ in many aspects and Finnish does not have scrambling in the sense of an alternation between an adverb and an object ...
Eefje Boef, Lena dal Pozzo
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On the Distribution of Reflexive Anaphors and Logophoric Anaphors in Balinese
Theory and Practice in Language Studies, 2022 The central claim of this paper is that reflexive anaphors and logophoric anaphors in Balinese share the same forms. It is shown that Balinese possesses simple and complex reflexives. Only complex reflexives participate in the logophoric environment.
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On the Anaphoricity of Too [PDF]
Linguistic Inquiry, 2015 Kripke (1990/2009) argues that the presupposition triggered by the additive particle too is anaphoric in nature, an influential thesis with important ramifications for the theory of presupposition. This article reexamines the empirical evidence and proposes an alternative explanation, leaving too with only its traditional existential presupposition.
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Anaphoric Islands and Anaphoric Forms: The Role of Explicit and Implicit Focus [PDF]
Discourse Processes, 2017 Two experiments are reported in which people resolve references to sets of entities (e.g. lies) that have previously been introduced either explicitly into a text (“the lies”) or implicitly via a cognate verb (a form of the verb “to lie”). Pronominal references to such entities were judged as relatively unacceptable, and required longer judgement times
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Dutch Anaphoric Possessive Construction
Journal of Language Modelling, 2023 The Dutch anaphoric possessive construction (APC), as exemplified by Tom zijn fiets ‘Tom his bike’, shows a peculiar mix of regularity and idiosyncracy. The article provides a theory-neutral description of its properties and quantitative information about its use in two treebanks, one of spoken Dutch (CGN) and one of written Dutch (Lassy Small).
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Comprehending conceptual anaphors [PDF]
Language and Cognitive Processes, 1991 English pronouns must agree with their antecedents in number. But in some situations, pronouns violate this constraint, as in "I think I'll order a frozen margarita. I just love them." Three situations are identified in which such violations occur: (1) Plural (and technically illegal) pronouns are used to refer to frequently or multiply occurring items
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Locative Inversion in Old English Embedded Clauses
LanguagesA grammatical construction resembling Present-Day English locative inversion has already been found in Old English, with a fronted prepositional phrase prompting V2 word order, both in main and subordinate clauses.
Sergio López-Martínez
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Fronting in Old Catalan: Asymmetries between Narration and Reported Speech1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 1-28, March 2025.Abstract This article explores the distribution, syntax, and information structure of XVS clauses in the narrative text and the reported speech of a thirteenth‐century Old Catalan chronicle, the Llibre dels Fets. It is shown that XVS occurs mainly within reported speech and in embedded clauses.
Afra Pujol i Campeny
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