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Referential and Non-referential Uses of the Third Person Pronominal Subject in Spanish

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2017
This paper studies the role of two different types of motivation that have been proposed to explain the use of subject personal pronouns in Spanish, namely their function as indications for the addressee to identify the subject's referent, and their suitability for expressing informational values such as contrastiveness or focus.
Marcos Garcia Salido
exaly   +3 more sources

Non‐Referential Uses of Nominalization Constructions: Asian Perspectives

open access: yesLanguage and Linguistics Compass, 2010
Abstract This study reviews extended uses of nominalization constructions in a wide range of Asian languages. It combines typological and diachronic perspectives, and traces how nominalization constructions over time develop from referential to non‐referential uses.
Foong Ha Yap, Karen Grunow-Hårsta
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A Lesson from Referential Uses of Definite Descriptions

open access: yesRussell: The Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies, 2007
In this paper it will be shown that a substantial conception of semantics, one that does not regard semantic phenomena as subsumed under pragmatic ones, is necessary to account for what cries out for an explanation regarding the old problem of the semantic relevance of the referential/attributive distinction, as applied to singular definite ...
Adriana Silva Graça   +1 more
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Definite Descriptions II: The Referential/Attributive Distinction

open access: yes, 1994
If Russell's theory of descriptions concerned their use and not just their meaning, it could account only for attributive uses of complete definite descriptions, where what is asserted is a uniqueness proposition.
Bach Kent
exaly   +2 more sources

How different are expletive and referential pronouns? A parsing perspective

open access: yesLingua, 2010
An expletive use of the third person pronoun ta in Mandarin Chinese poses a number of theoretical challenges which have not been met satisfactorily by existing analyses. In this paper we propose a unitary analysis of expletive and referential uses of the
Yicheng Wu, Stephen Matthews
exaly   +2 more sources

Preschoolers' use of analogies in referential communication

First Language, 2009
In referential communication tasks, preschoolers' messages often fail. Children appear to produce `nonconventional' messages involving `idiosyncratic' or `private' meanings. The aim of this study was to examine whether some nonconventional messages are analogies that function to permit children to communicate in the absence of possessing a conventional
IOZZI L, BARBIERI, MARIA
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DNA compression using referential compression algorithm

2015 Eighth International Conference on Contemporary Computing (IC3), 2015
With rapid technological development and growth of sequencing data, an umpteen gamut of biological data has been generated. As an alternative, Data Compression is employed to reduce the size of data. In this direction, this paper proposes a new reference-based compression approach, which is employed as a solution.
Kanika Mehta, Satya Prakash Ghrera
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