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Choosing between zero and pronominal subject: modeling subject expression in the 1st person singular in Finnish conversation

Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, 2016
AbstractThe variability of subject expression has been extensively investigated across languages. We present a large-scale multivariate statistical analysis of the choice of subject expression in the 1st person singular in spontaneous Finnish conversation, with a focus on the choice between pronominal and zero subject.
Kyröläinen Aki-Juhani, Helasvuo Marja-Liisa   +1 more
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Bound person forms in ditransitive clauses revisited. [PDF]

, 2007
In a recent article Gensler (2003) has argued that little can be said about the ordering of bound person markers of the T(heme) and R(ecipient) relative to each other or relative to the verb stem apart from the fact that the outer markers are likely to ...
Bakker, Dik, Siewierska, Anna
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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 ...
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Referential Dependencies in Turkish: Some Novel Arguments on the Binding of Kendisi, O and Pro

Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2023
The Turkish reflexive kendisi (self-3SG.POSS) deviates from Principle A of the Binding Theory and from the Minimalist movement approaches to referential dependencies.
Nazik DİNÇTOPAL DENİZ
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Pronominal Subject Expression in Spoken Modern Hebrew: A Diachronic Perspective

Journal of Semitic Studies, 2022
Abstract As a consequence of the sociolinguistic circumstances of its emergence, the morpho-syntactic profile of Modern Hebrew (MH) originates in several sources – classical layers of Hebrew, pre-existing written practices, contact-induced influence of the native languages of the early MH speakers and internal linguistic developments ...
Leon Shor, Yael Reshef, Einat Gonen
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Dogon pronominal systems their nature and evolution

Studies in African Linguistics, 1994
The Dogon language family has received little attention in the linguistics literature to date. In this paper we examine the binding properties of the pronominal systems of three Dogon languages, Donno S:>, T:>r:> S:>, and Togo Ka.
Cristopher Culy, Kungarma Kodio
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Discourse and Form Constraints on Licensing Object-First Sentences in German

Languages, 2021
In German, the subject usually precedes the object (SO order), but, under certain discourse conditions, the object is allowed to precede the subject (OS order).
Markus Bader, Yvonne Portele
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Object Markers in Ikalanga

Linguistic Discovery, 2013
There is an on-going debate amongst linguists regarding the status of the object marker (OM). Some scholars argue that OMs are agreement morphology (Baker 2010, Riedel 2009) while others argue that OMs are pronominal and not agreement morphology (Nevins ...
Rose Letsholo
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At the interface of syntax and prosody: differentiating left dislocated and tripartite verbless clauses in Biblical Hebrew

Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics, 2017
The so-called tripartite verbless clause in Biblical Hebrew consists of two nominal phrases and a pronominal element. Three analyses of the pronominal element have been advanced, each with implications for understanding the structure of the sentence.
Naudé, Jacobus A., Miller-Naudé, Cynthia L.   +1 more
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Parameters of variation between verb-subject and subject-verb order in late Middle English [PDF]

, 2007
This article sets out to clarify the contribution of syntactic properties and subject weight for variation between verb-subject and subject-verb order in a database of fourteenth and fifteenth-century prose. It sets out the syntactic structures which are
Warner, Anthony
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