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Non-situational functions of demonstrative noun phrases in Lingala (Bantu) [PDF]

, 2012
This paper examines the non-situational (i.e., non-exophoric) pragmatic functions of the three adnominal demonstratives, oyo, wand, and yango in the Bantu language Lingala.
Meeuwis, Michael, Stroeken, Koenraad
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Definiteness and determinacy [PDF]

, 2015
This paper distinguishes between definiteness and determinacy. Definiteness is seen as a morphological category which, in English, marks a (weak) uniqueness presupposition, while determinacy consists in denoting an individual.
Beaver, David, Coppock, Elizabeth
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Conversational Grammar- Feminine Grammar? A Sociopragmatic Corpus Study [PDF]

, 2010
One area in language and gender research that has so far received only little attention is the extent to which the sexes make use of what recent corpus research has termed “conversational grammar.” The author’s initial findings have suggested that the ...
Adolphs, Svenia, Aston, Guy, Biber, Douglas, Biber, Douglas, BNC Consortium, Oxford University Computing Services., Brown, Penelope, Bybee, Joan, Carter, Ron, Christoph Rühlemann, Coates, Jennifer., Coates, Jennifer., Fairclough, Norman., Goffman, Ervin., Günther, Ulrike., Halliday, M.A.K., Halliday, M.A.K., Holmes, Janet, Holmes, Janet., Hughes, Rebecca., Hunston, Susan, Kilgarriff, Adam., Leech, Geoffrey, Leech, Geoffrey., McEnery, Tony, Miller, Jim, Quirk, Randolph, Rühlemann, Christoph., Rühlemann, Christoph., Schmid, Hans-Jörg., Tannen, Deborah., Thompson, Geoff, Torgersen, Eivind, Tottie, Gunnel., Wong, Deanna., Xiao, Richard   +34 more
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PERFORMING ANAPHORA IN MODERN GREEK: A NEO-GRICEAN PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS [PDF]

, 2013
The paper addresses the problem of interpreting anaphoric NPs in Modern Greek. It includes a proposal of a novel analysis based on the systematic interaction of the neo- Gricean pragmatic principles of communication, which provides a neat and elegant ...
Anagnostopoulou, Anagnostopoulou, Arlenga, Arlenga, Arlenga, Arlenga, Blackwell, Blackwell, Blackwell, Blackwell, Blackwell, Blackwell, Blackwell, Blackwell, Cambridge, Cambridge, Cambridge, Cambridge, Chiou, Chiou, Culy, Culy, Culy, Culy, Dowty, Dowty, Fox, Fox, Frey, Frey, Grice, Grice, Grice, Grice, Grice, Grice, Grodzinsky, Grodzinsky, Haspelmath, Haspelmath, Holton, Holton, Horn, Horn, Huang, Huang, Huang, Huang, Huang, Huang, Huang, Huang, Iatridou, Iatridou, Iatridou, Iatridou, Iatridou, Iatridou, Joseph, Joseph, Karamanis, Karamanis, Kempson, Kempson, Kempson, Kempson, Kempson, Kempson, Kempson, Kempson, Kiparsky, Kiparsky, Koopman, Koopman, Kordoni, Kordoni, Lapata, Lapata, Levinson, Levinson, Levinson, Levinson, Levinson, Levinson, Mackridge, Mackridge, Michael Chiou, Miltsakaki, Miltsakaki, Philippaki, Philippaki, Philippaki, Philippaki, Praeger, Praeger, Reinhart, Reinhart, Reinhart, Reinhart, Runner, Runner, Sells, Sells, Susumu, Susumu, Terzi, Terzi, Valiouli, Valiouli, Varlokosta, Varlokosta, Varlokosta, Varlokosta, Varlokosta, Varlokosta, Zribi, Zribi, Zribi, Zribi   +118 more
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A collective extension of relational grammar [PDF]

, 1998
Relational grammar was proposed in Suppes (1976) as a semantical grammar for natural language. Fragments considered so far are restricted to distributive notions.
Böttner, M.
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Possessif ou défini associatif ? Les relations fonctionnelles et actancielles [PDF]

Studii de Lingvistica, 2014
This paper tackles the subject of associative and possessive anaphora with two kinds of nouns: relational nouns that Kleiber called functional (e.g. driver) and nouns of actants (e.g. murderer).
Mathilde Salles
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Design and enhanced evaluation of a robust anaphor resolution algorithm [PDF]

, 2001
Syntactic coindexing restrictions are by now known to be of central importance to practical anaphor resolution approaches. Since, in particular due to structural ambiguity, the assumption of the availability of a unique syntactic reading proves to be ...
Stuckardt, Roland
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Teasing apart retrieval and encoding interference in the processing of anaphors [PDF]

, 2015
Two classes of account have been proposed to explain the memory processes subserving the processing of reflexive-antecedent dependencies. Structure-based accounts assume that the retrieval of the antecedent is guided by syntactic tree-configurational ...
Anderson, Anderson, Anderson, Anderson, Asendorpf, Baayen, Badecker, Bates, Box, Chen, Chomsky, Chow, Clackson, Clifton, Cousineau, Cunnings, Dillon, Dillon, Elbourne, Everaert, Fedorenko, Fisher, Fox, Gast, Gibson, Gordon, Gordon, Gordon, Gordon, Grodzinsky, Heim, Heister, Holmes, Just, Jäger, Kaiser, King, Kush, Kush, Laurinavichyute, Lewandowsky, Lewis, Longobardi, Martin, McElree, McElree, Morey, Nairne, Nairne, Nicol, Oberauer, Parker, Phillips, R Development Core Team, Reinhart, Reinhart, Reuland, Reuland, Reuland, Simmons, Staub, Sturt, Van Dyke, Van Dyke, Van Dyke, Van Dyke, Vasishth, Wagers, Watkins, Xiang   +69 more
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Real Anaphora Resolution is Hard [PDF]

, 2010
We introduce a system for anaphora resolution for German that uses various resources in order to develop a real system as opposed to systems based on idealized assumptions, e.g. the use of true mentions only or perfect parse trees and perfect morphology.
Fahrni, A, Klenner, M, Sennrich, R
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The role of inter- and intralingual factors and compendiums in acquisition of Swedish as a foreign language: the case of Finns’ learning definiteness and the use of articles [PDF]

, 2016
This study explores the acquisition of definiteness and article use in written Swedish by Finnish-speaking teenagers (n=67) during three years in secondary school.
Nyqvist, Eeva-Liisa
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