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Exploring the function and distribution of generic pronouns: The example of German man and du [PDF]
, 2010 This work examines the research to date on generic pronouns – that is, items such as English one and German man – and suggests how this can be advanced through empirical means.
Linthe, Anna
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Pronouns stand for noun phrases or phrases of other categories. Personal pronouns may encode nominal features (animacy, case, gender) and enter feature sharing relations with elements occurring sentence-internally or in the discourse.
Cardinaletti, Anna
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Pronouns, dialect and discourse: A socio-pragmatic account of children's language in Teeside [PDF]
, 2008 This thesis reports the results from an ethnographic study of the language practices of 9-10-year-old children in two socially differentiated primary schools in Teesside, in the north-east of England.
Snell, Julia
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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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Avoiding gender ambiguous pronouns in French [PDF]
, 2022 International audienceAcross many languages, pronouns are the most frequently produced referring expressions. We examined whether and how speakers avoid referential ambiguity that arises when the gender of a pronoun is compatible with more than one ...
Alario, F-Xavier +3 more
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A Study of the Use of Pronouns in Japanese TV Programs [PDF]
, 2022 The aim of this article is to consider the use of Japanese personal pronouns in TV programs. Todoroki (1998) shows that there are differences between personal pronouns in Japanese and those in English.
轟, 里香 +4 more
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Effect of evaluative expressions on two types of demonstrative pronouns in German
Glossa, 2023 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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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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Quel est mon/ton/son pronom ? Invariabilité, autodétermination et le pronom iel
Glad!, 2022 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
LingVaria, 2016 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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