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Singular they and the syntactic representation of gender in English
Glossa, 2017 Singular they enjoys a curious notoriety in popular discussions of English grammar. Despite this, and though its use with quantificational, non-specific, and genuinely epicene antecedents dates back at least to the 1400s (Balhorn 2004), it has been ...
Bronwyn Bjorkman
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The impact of pronouns on the reception of supernatural creatures in Sapkowski’s short stories
JęzykoznawstwoThis paper seeks to analyse two translations of Andrzej Sapkowski’s books Ostatnie życzenie (The Last Wish) and Miecz przeznaczenia (Sword of Destiny) with the focus on pronouns used by the author and translators (Danusia Stok and David French) in ...
Michalina Piotrowska
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A compositional analysis of VP anaphors
Anglophonia, 2018 The VP anaphors do it and do this/do that have been little studied in the literature, although they are mentioned in passing in a number of more general works such as Hankamer and Sag (1976), Culicover and Jackendoff (2005) or descriptive grammars by ...
Gabriel Flambard
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Discourse-Linked DPs as Covert Partitives
IsoglossThe paper studies the conditions that determine the Discourse-Linked or non-Discourse-Linked status of noun-less Determiner Phrases introduced by different determiners, in Italian and in English. For instance, given the sentence Ten bombs exploded
Michelangelo Falco, Roberto Zamparelli
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الربط فى شعر الشاعر محمد أبوالفضل بدران [PDF]
Mağallaẗ Kulliyyaẗ Al-Adāb Bi-Qināتناول البحث نبذة مختصرة عن الشاعر أبو الفضل بدران، وشعره، والمؤثرات البارزة في شعره، ثم تناول ظاهرة الربط وأثرها في تماسك النص، ومعرفة مفهومها لغة واصطلاحًا، وكذلك أدوات الربط وإسهامها في إضافة معان جديدة في الجملة والجمل التي بعدها،، كما تناول مواضع ...
علي احمد طايع هلالى
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Dogon pronominal systems their nature and evolution
Studies in African Linguistics, 1994 The Dogon language family has received little attention in the linguistics literature to date. In this paper we examine the binding properties of the pronominal systems of three Dogon languages, Donno S:>, T:>r:> S:>, and Togo Ka.
Cristopher Culy, Kungarma Kodio
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Three types of verbal logophoricity in African languages
Studies in African Linguistics, 2002 The term logophoric is most strongly tied to pronominal systems. However, most recent literature on logophoricity accepts the existence of verbal marking of logophoricity.
Timothy Jowan Curnow
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RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics, 2018 The purpose of the article is the conduction a linguistic comparative analysis of the speeches of the President of Russia V.V. Putin and the 44th US President Barack Obama, delivered by these leaders at the jubilee 70th UN General Assembly. The author of
Marina O Chichina
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Realisasi Pronomina dalam Bahasa Mooi: Analisis Tipologi Morfologi
Ranah: Jurnal Kajian Bahasa, 2018 This study on relation of pronouns and affixation discusses about pronouns structure and affixes usage in Mooi language. Pronouns structures in Mooi language include personal pronouns, possessive pronouns, interrogative pronouns and demonstrative ...
Winci Firdaus
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The prosody-syntax interface and the status of pronouns in Papiamentu
Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2007 This paper shows that a distinction should be made between weak and strong pronouns in Papiamentu. The members of the weak series are prosodically and distributionally deficient, in contrast with those of the strong series.
Silvia Kouwenberg
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