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Ergativity and the active-stative typology in Loma

open access: yesStudies in African Linguistics, 1983
Ergativity would seem to be non-existant or at least quite rare in Africa. This lack, however, may be related to another continent-wide areal phenomenon: there is a paucity of morphological NP case marking according to either ergative or accusative ...
Noel Rude
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Object Markers in Ikalanga

open access: yesLinguistic Discovery, 2013
There is an on-going debate amongst linguists regarding the status of the object marker (OM). Some scholars argue that OMs are agreement morphology (Baker 2010, Riedel 2009) while others argue that OMs are pronominal and not agreement morphology (Nevins ...
Rose Letsholo
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Processing adjunct control: Evidence on the use of structural information and prediction in reference resolution

open access: yesGlossa, 2020
The comprehension of anaphoric relations may be guided not only by discourse, but also syntactic information. In the literature on online processing, however, the focus has been on audible pronouns and descriptions whose reference is resolved mainly on ...
Alexander Williams   +3 more
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Are New Gender-Neutral Pronouns Difficult to Process in Reading? The Case of Hen in SWEDISH

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2020
Hen is a Swedish gender-neutral pronoun used for non-binary individuals and as a generic singular pronoun form. Hen was added to the Swedish Academy Glossary (SAOL) in 2015, and opponents of hen have argued that gender-neutral pronouns are difficult to ...
Hellen P. Vergoossen   +5 more
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The acquisition of compositional definiteness in Norwegian

open access: yesNordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2008
This paper aim to explain why the prenominal definiteness marker found in modified structures only is acquired much later than the suffixal definite article in Norwegian.
Merete Anderssen
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Ditransitive Constructions in Zaza Language

open access: yesAkademik İncelemeler Dergisi, 2021
Languages group verbs in different ways. Because of the ergative feature of Zazaki, it plays a big role whether the verbs are transitive or intransitive.
İlyas Arslan
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*Pronoun+Clitic

open access: yesBaltistica, 1983

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The causes of mistakes in the translation of German pronouns into Ukrainian

open access: yesВісник Харківського національного університету імені В. Н. Каразіна. Серія Філологія. Vìsnik Harkìvsʹkogo nacìonalʹnogo unìversitetu ìmenì V.N. Karazìna. Serìâ Fìlologìâ.
The article analyzes the causes of mistakes made by students when translating German pronouns into Ukrainian and the ways to avoid such mistakes. The relevance of the study lies in the fact that students regularly make mistakes when translating German ...
Oleksandra Shadrina, Pavlo Shopin
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Pronoun Logic

open access: yesCoRR
Accepted to Queer in AI Workshop @ NAACL 2024. https://www.queerinai.com/naacl-2024/
Rose Bohrer, Ashe Neth
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Variation in Gizey third-person subjects and the emergence of antilogophoricity

open access: yesLinguistics
This paper is concerned with how grammatical functions emerge in natural languages. Specifically, it provides insights into the emergence of antilogophoricity, viz., the special coding of participants other than those whose speech or thoughts are being ...
Guitang Guillaume
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