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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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Foxes, hounds, and horses : Who or which? [PDF]
, 2006 Writers of English can choose whether to mark a high level of sentience in a nonhuman animal by selecting the word who rather than which. An examination of texts relating to foxhunting on the world wide web showed that, in reference to the nonhuman ...
Gupta, A.F.
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From anaphoric pronoun to copula in Zande [PDF]
, 2012 In Zande there is a particle ni which has two syntactic functions. The first one is that of an ana¬phoric pronoun (cf. ex. 1. for its use as a possessive pronoun) which is neutral with regard to gender, number, and syntactic function. The second function
Pasch, Helma
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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 +118 more
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Chinese Zero Pronoun Resolution with Deep Memory Network
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2017 Existing approaches for Chinese zero pronoun resolution typically utilize only syntactical and lexical features while ignoring semantic information. The fundamental reason is that zero pronouns have no descriptive information, which brings difficulty in ...
Qingyu Yin +3 more
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On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
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A Deep Neural Network for Chinese Zero Pronoun Resolution [PDF]
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2016 Existing approaches for Chinese zero pronoun resolution overlook semantic information. This is because zero pronouns have no descriptive information, which results in difficulty in explicitly capturing their semantic similarities with antecedents ...
Qingyu Yin +3 more
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia require culturally responsive services. The Australian government has committed to establishing strategies to increase the size of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander disability workforce; however, there is scant research on the factors influencing retention.
J. Gwynn +9 more
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Implicit reference to citations: a study of astronomy [PDF]
, 2006 The research in this paper presents results in the automatic classification of pronouns within articles into those which refer to cited research and those which do not.
Kim, Yunhyong, Webber, Bonnie
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Do Linguistic Structures Affect Human Capital? The Case of Pronoun Drop
Kyklos (Basel), 2018 This paper empirically studies the human capital effects of grammatical rules that permit speakers to drop a personal pronoun when used as a subject of a sentence.
H. Feldmann
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