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Not every pronoun is always a pronoun
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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(I'm) Happy to Help (You): The Impact of Personal Pronoun Use in Customer–Firm Interactions
In responding to customer questions or complaints, should marketing agents linguistically “put the customer first” by using certain personal pronouns?
Grant Packard +2 more
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Dative by genitive replacement in the Greek language of the papyri: a diachronic account of case semantics [PDF]
Semantic analysis of the prenominal first person singular genitive pronoun (μου) in the Greek of the documentary papyri shows that the pronoun is typically found in the position between a verbal form and an alienable possessum which functions as the ...
Stolk, Joanne Vera
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Dependent Types for Pragmatics [PDF]
This paper proposes the use of dependent types for pragmatic phenomena such as pronoun binding and presupposition resolution as a type-theoretic alternative to formalisms such as Discourse Representation Theory and Dynamic Semantics.Comment: This version
A. Ranta +14 more
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The Rise of Standard I (< Me Ich): A Contribution to the Study of Functional Change in English
In its post-Norman Conquest development the Old English first person personal pronoun ic underwent transformations which, following the loss of the consonant, finally yielded the contemporary capitalised form I, contrasting with other Germanic languages,
Wełna Jerzy
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The article deals with the specifics of the word formation of pronominal vocabulary of the Russian dialect of old believers Cossacks-Nekrasov in Stavropol Krai, which, after several centuries of exile, returned in 1962 to Russia and settled in the ...
V. Gryaznova
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Les pronoms : quelques problèmes de délimitation de la catégorie
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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La grammaire en français langue étrangère : questions d’acquisition et d’intervention
This paper is devoted to a description of a subset of the grammar developed by learners of French as a second language and to an analysis of the possible use of this transitional grammar for purposes of language teaching.The acquisition of L2 grammar is ...
Georges-Daniel Véronique
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The current study investigated the production of third-person subject and object pronouns in monolingual and bilingual children with High Functioning Autism (HFA) and typical language development (TLD). Furthermore, it evaluated the underlying linguistic
N. Meir, Rama Novogrodsky
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