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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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Dependent plural pronouns with Skolemized choice functions

, 2014
The present paper discusses two interesting phenomena concerning phi-features on plural pronouns: (i) plural pronouns that denote atomic individuals (‘dependent plural pronouns’), and (ii) plural pronouns with more than one binder (‘partial binding’).
Yasutada Sudo, Sudo, Y
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Grammatical properties of pronouns and their representation : an exposition

, 2010
This volume brings together a cross-section of recent research on the grammar and representation of pronouns, centering around the typology of pronominal paradigms, the generation of syntactic and semantic representations for constructions containing ...
Wiese, Heike, Simon, Horst J.
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Pronouns, prepositions and probabilities: a multivariate study of Old English word order [PDF]

, 2011
It is widely accepted that Old English personal pronouns often turn up in ‘special’ positions, i.e. positions in which functionally equivalent nominals rarely, if ever, appear. Leading theories of Old English syntax (e.g.
Alcorn, Rhona Jayne
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Demonstrative Pronouns as Anti-Logophoric Pronouns: An Experimental Investigation

, 2021
Demonstrative Pronouns as Anti-Logophoric Pronouns: An Experimental Investigation. Stefan Hinterwimmer, Andreas Brocher and Umesh Patil. 2020. Dialogue & Discourse. 11(3): 110-127. https://doi.org/10.5087/dad.2020.204.
Umesh Patil, Stefan Hinterwimmer
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The impact of pronouns on the reception of supernatural creatures in Sapkowski’s short stories

Językoznawstwo
This 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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Pronouns in Burmese-Lolo

, 1993
Various interesting processes of grammaticalisation can be observed in the pronominal systems of the Burmese-Lobo languages. There are many innovative denominal or de-demonstrative pronoun stems.
Bradley, David
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Discourse-Linked DPs as Covert Partitives

Isogloss
The 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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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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A unified account of the properties of demonstrative pronouns in German

, 2012
The aim of this paper is to give a unified account of the way that German demonstrative pronouns (henceforth: D-pronouns) like der, die and das behave (a) in sentences where they receive a coreferential interpretation, and (b) in sentences where they ...
Hinterwimmer, Stefan
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