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Formas nominales y pronominales de tratamiento: perspectivas de estudios contrastivos en el ámbito sociopragmático

open access: yesStudia Iberystyczne, 2012
NOMINAL AND PRONOMINAL FORMS OF ADDRESS: PERSPECTIVES OF SOCIOPRAGMATIC CONTRASTIVE STUDIES The subject of the article is a contrastive analysis of pronominal and nominal forms of address in Polish and Spanish.
Marek Baran
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Agreement and Null Subjects

open access: yesNordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2004
This paper argues that agreement is a theta-role bearer, either directly, when agreement is externally merged in a theta position, or indirectly, when it is internally merged, heading an argument chain.
Christer Platzack
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Short-distance pronominals

open access: yesNordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2011
In both Icelandic and Faroese there are instances of pronominals taking local subject antecedents, usually when the pronominal is within a PP. This paper discusses a study on pronominals’ ability to take a local subject antecedent.
Gísli Rúnar Harðarson
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THE IMPLEMENTATION OF GRAMMATICAL FUNCTIONS IN FUNCTIONAL DISCOURSE GRAMMAR [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
underlying representation in a more or less across the board fashion, only taking into consideration the language dependent semantic function hierarchy.
Bakker, Dik, Siewierska, Anna
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The High Tone Syllable in Central Yorùbá Dialects

open access: yesNordic Journal of African Studies, 2009
This paper examines The High Tone Syllable (HTS) in Central Yorùbá dialects: Èkìtì, Ifẹ̀, Ìjẹ̀sà and Mọ̀bà dialects. The High Tone Syllable occurs between the subject and the verb in Central Yoruba dialects.
Tèmítọ́pẹ́ Olúmúyìwá
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On Subject Pronouns in Finnish-Italian Bilinguals: Effects of Cross-linguistic Influence on Discourse-pragmatics Competence

open access: yesQuaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali, 2019
The distribution of overt pronouns has been the focus of much interest in the last decades as it is considered a typical phenomenon of the syntax-discourse/pragmatics interface, a locus of variability in different kinds of language acquisition (bilingual,
Lena Dal Pozzo
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Out-of-focus encoding in Gur and Kwa [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This paper investigates the structural properties of morphosyntactically marked focus constructions, focussing on the often neglected non-focal sentence part in African tone languages.
Fiedler, Ines, Schwarz, Anne
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The Development of Basque Subject Pronoun Expression in Bilingual School-Age Children

open access: yesBorealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics
Acquiring full mastery of the pragmatic constraints regulating null/overt pronominal subjects in null subject languages like Basque is a prolonged and cognitively taxing process because pronominal distribution is pragmatically conditioned in discourse ...
Eider Etxebarria, Silvina Montrul
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Information structure and the accessibility of clausally introduced referents [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This paper will examine the role of various factors in affecting the salience, and hence the accessibility to pronominal reference, of entities introduced into a discourse by a full clause.
Borthen, Kaja   +2 more
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