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My pronouns are they/them: Talking about pronouns changes how pronouns are understood [PDF]
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2021 The pronoun “they” can be either plural or singular, perhaps referring to an individual who identifies as nonbinary. How do listeners identify whether “they” has a singular or plural sense? We test the role of explicitly discussing pronouns (e.g., “Alex uses they/them pronouns”).
Dong, Lisa +2 more
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Lingua, 2002 Subject-object distinctions in pronominal systems of languages like Dutch and English are not similar to nominative-accusative oppositions in languages with morphological case, since pronouns do not show the syntactic effects of morphological case. This does not mean that these pronominal distinctions are only relics of earlier stages with a richer ...
Weerman, F.P., Evers - Vermeul, J.
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Poor pronoun systems and what they teach us
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2015 The world’s smallest pronoun systems can eschew any of the following contrasts: (i) author–nonauthor, (ii) participant–nonparticipant, (iii) singular–nonsingular.
Daniel Harbour
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Not every pronoun is always a pronoun
Linguistics and Philosophy, 2023 AbstractA homonymy analysis is proposed to explain the so-called “demonstrative use” of personal pronouns. This analysis explains why some pronouns (it) do not allow a demonstrative use, as demonstrated in Nunberg (1993). The absence of a demonstrative feature initcan also account for the fact that it does not allow deferred reference.
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Les pronoms : quelques problèmes de délimitation de la catégorie
Corela, 2022 This article deals with the pronoun word-class, its definition and the distinction between pronouns and determiners. It first examines the traditional and etymological definition of the pronoun as a word put ‘instead of a noun’, a definition which is ...
Jérôme Puckica
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Morphological Characteristics of Diplomatic Language [PDF]
Cultural Intertexts, 2014 This paper aims at investigating certain morphological features of the diplomatic language. It is focused on the type of verbs used, the preference for certain types of nouns and noun phrases, and the use of pronouns in various types of diplomatic ...
Raluca–Maria TOPALĂ
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Analysis of Deixis in the Subtitle Movie of “First Kiss”
LET: Linguistics, Literature and English Teaching Journal, 2020 The objective of this research is to analyze the type and its examples of deixis found in the subtitle movie of “First Kiss”. This research method of this method is qualitative methodology.
Tira Nur Fitria
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Investigation of the Pronoun “We” within the Framework of Enunciation Theory
Litera: Dil, Edebiyat ve Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2021 In this paper, the matter of subjectivity, which is of paramount importance in Turkish, yet studied in a limited number of research, was discussed centering on the pronoun “we”.
Esra Güven, Ayşe Eziler Kıran
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Pragmatics of Using Quantifier Word “All” Usage in the Language of Regional Newspapers
Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета: Серия 2. Языкознание, 2015 The article describes some peculiar functions of the pronoun all in the language of the regional press. The dependence of secondary pragmatic values of the quantifier pronouns on the genre setting, stylistic features, thematic dominants of the text, and ...
Tamara Anatolyevna Pivovarchik
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