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Reference in the Borderline of Space and Discourse: a Free Production Experiment in Estonian, Finnish and Russian; pp. 185-208 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2019 This study explores spatial reference in three different languages: ÂEstonian, Finnish and Russian. We concentrate on the use of demonstratives (i.e. pronouns and adverbs), and the association between the demonstrative pronoun system (i.e.
Maria Reile +3 more
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Discours, 2022 This article contributes to a debate in the linguistic and psychological literature that centers around the question if grammatical systems which are acquired simultaneously are separate right from the beginning or if they overlap.
Anna Jachimek +2 more
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Space and demonstratives: an experiment with Estonian exophoric demonstratives
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2015 In recent years, the study of exophoric demonstratives has increased in Indo- European languages, but has received fairly little research attention in Estonian.
Maria Reile
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A mondatközi anafora és az ő névmás szerepei [PDF]
Jelentés és Nyelvhasználat, 2016 The anaphor between sentences and the roles of the third-person-singular personal pronoun ő in Hungarian *** This paper discusses the rules and tendencies of the usage of the third-person-pronoun in singular, restricted by the pro-drop rules in Hungarian.
Kocsány, Piroska
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Demonstrative Pronouns as Anti-Logophoric Pronouns: An Experimental Investigation
Dialogue & Discourse, 2020 In this paper we report the results of two experimental studies in which we tested the claim of Hinterwimmer and Bosch (2017) that German demonstrative pronouns are anti-logophoric pronouns: They avoid discourse referents as antecedents that function as perspectival centers.
Hinterwimmer, Stefan +2 more
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"That" and "This" vs "Tot" and "Etot"
Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета, 2019 The abstracted article summarizes the author's observations concerning the use of the English demonstrative pronouns this and that. The author focuses on the contradiction between what is prescribed by the language system, and what is accepted by the ...
A. V. Terenin
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Resolving ambiguity of demonstrative use in Kamas
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2015 The purpose of the present paper is to establish pragmatic criteria which help in parsing syntactically ambiguous instances of a sequence of demonstrative pronoun and noun (D_N) in the Kamas text corpus.
Gerson Klumpp
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The Chinese copula SHI and Its Origin: A Congnitive-based Approach [PDF]
Taiwan Journal of Linguistics, 2006 This paper discusses the proposals of Li and Thompson (1977), Yen (1986), and Feng (1993) in relation to the development of the Chinese copula and argues that Li and Thompson’s suggestion of a topic mechanism, Yen’s analogical change, and Feng’s ...
Jung-hsing Chang
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The multifunctionality of -o in Rukiga
Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2021 This paper discusses the particle -o in Rukiga (Bantu JE14, Uganda), aiming to establish its origin and function. At first sight, the particle appears to be an independent pronoun agreeing in noun class, reported in previous studies as an emphatic ...
Allen Asiimwe, Jenneke van der Wal
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Ambiguity resolution in the pronominal domain in child Romanian [PDF]
Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2018 This paper explores the acquisition of antecedent preferences by typically-developing Romanian-speaking (pre)school children. It investigates the antecedent preferences for subject pronouns (pro, el ‘he’, this ‘acesta’) in the subjunctive complements of ...
Ioana Stoicescu, Maria Aurelia Cotfas
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