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Iroquois pronouns [PDF]

Science, 1884
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TRANSKULTURASI DALAM PENERJEMAHAN PRONOMINA PADA TERJEMAHAN ALQURAN BAHASA SUNDA

Arabiyat, 2018
The pronouns of Arabic are different from the pronouns of Sundanese. Arabic pronouns have egalitarian and neutral meanings, while Sundanese pronouns reveal the dimensions of socio-cultural and politeness.
Syihabuddin Syihabuddin
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Do perspective-sensitive anaphors and subjective adjectives exhibit perspectival uniformity? An experimental investigation

Glossa, 2022
Many kinds of linguistic expressions are perspective-sensitive, including predicates of personal taste and some anaphoric forms. This paper reports three experiments testing sentences like “Nora told/heard from Kimberly about the frightening photograph ...
Elsi Kaiser
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The interpretative options of anaphoric complex demonstratives

Glossa, 2022
In this paper, we present experimental evidence from a ‘yes’/‘no’ judgement task and two acceptability rating studies (Experiments 1a-c) for the claim made in Hinterwimmer (2019) that sentences with two anaphorically interpreted complex demonstratives ...
Stefan Hinterwimmer, Umesh Patil
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Indexed definiteness

Glossa, 2022
This paper posits a distinction between plain definite DPs and indexed definite DPs: only the latter have a syntactically represented referential index, an idxP, in [Spec, DP].
Peter Jenks
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A pessoa and uma pessoa: Grammaticalization and functions of a human impersonal referential device in European Portuguese

Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2021
The grammaticalization of nouns meaning ‘man’ or ‘person’ into impersonal pronouns (so-called man-impersonals) has been related to languages with obligatory subject expression, like Germanic languages and French.
Pekka Posio
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pronoun in ortonese

HUMAN REVIEW. International Humanities Review / Revista Internacional de Humanidades, 2022
In this article we will study the pronominal system in Ortonese, which belongs to the central-southern Italo-Romance languages. The analysis we propose is contrastive: we will compare the data with the Italian to highlight their differences in terms of some morphosyntactic aspects.
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A Textual Study of Turkish Overt and Null Singular Personal Pronouns in Novels

Discours
This study examines how Turkish overt and null singular subject pronouns are used in fiction novels. These pronouns are analysed focusing on their antecedents using the framework of Mira Ariel’s Accessibility Theory.
Buse Şen Erdoğan, Emine Yarar
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The Finnish logophoric pronoun hän: a quantitative approach

Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2017
The paper examines the logophoric use of hän ‘he/she’ in contemporary Finnish conversation data. A logophoric pronoun is a device used in reported speech referring to the original speaker of a reported utterance.
Katri Priiki
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The Influence of Genre Constraints on Author Representation in Medical Research Articles. The French Indefinite Pronoun On in IMRAD Research Articles

Discours, 2013
Scientific discourse is characterized by highly normative and strict genre constraints on language use, both on the macro (text) and micro (word) level. The purpose of this article is to study the distribution of the French indefinite pronoun on and its ...
Anje Müller Gjesdal
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