Effect of evaluative expressions on two types of demonstrative pronouns in German
We propose a unified prominence-based account of the two paradigms of demonstrative pronouns in German: the die- and diese-paradigm. The two types of demonstrative pronouns have been shown to have similar referential preferences — avoiding the most ...
Petra B. Schumacher +2 more
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Quel est mon/ton/son pronom ? Invariabilité, autodétermination et le pronom iel
The introduction of the pronoun iel in the Robert dictionary (first in its electronic, then in its printed version) has aroused great interest – and much debate. If we compare the pronouns of the third person with those of the first and second person, we
Daniel Elmiger
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Zaimki – uniwersalny system referencji
Pronouns – a universal system of reference The author elaborates the thesis that pronouns, as a “pars orationis”, function as a universal system of reference in their respective linguistic code.
Zuzanna Topolińska
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Vous or tu? Native and non-native speakers of French on a sociolinguistic tightrope [PDF]
Sociolinguistic rules governing choice of pronouns of address are notoriously difficult in French, despite the fact that the number of variants is rather limited: the more formal vous versus the more informal tu.
Dewaele, Jean-Marc
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Reflexive pronouns in Spanish Universal Dependencies [PDF]
In this paper, we argue that in current Universal Dependencies treebanks, the annotation of Spanish reflexives is an unsolved problem, which clearly affects the accuracy and consistency of current parsers.
Degraeuwe, Jasper, Goethals, Patrick
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Pronoun Variants in Standard Lithuanian: Diamesic Dimension
The paper deals with variants of personal pronouns, specifically the third person singular nominative case jis/jisai ‘he’ and ji/jinai ‘she’ in Lithuanian. The existence of such variation has been so far ignored by most linguists.
Jogilė Teresa Ramonaitė
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Beyond gender stereotypes in language comprehension: self sex-role descriptions affect the brain’s potentials associated with agreement processing [PDF]
We recorded Event-Related Potentials to investigate differences in the use of gender information during the processing of reflexive pronouns. Pronouns either matched the gender provided by role nouns (such as “king” or “engineer”) or did not. We compared
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Pronominal System of Soikkola Ingrian: Interrogative/Relative, Indefinite, and Negative Pronouns and Their Variation [PDF]
The paper analyses several classes of pronouns in the Soikkola dialect of the Ingrian language, namely interrogative/relative, indefinite, and negative pronouns.
Anna Schwarz, Fedor Rozhanskiy
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Subscription Formulae Expression Variants in the Croatian Texts of the Lovran Notebook
Subscription (subscriptio) as the medieval diplomatic corroboration formula appears mostly as a signature left by the participants in the legal act (cf. Brković 1995, Stipišić 1985).
Gordana Čupković
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English possessive determiner phrases and coordination
This paper suggests an analysis of English possessives and coordination that is compatible with the treatment of Germanic pronominal case developed by Parrott within the Distributed Morphology framework.
Jeffrey Keith Parrott
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