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Acquisition during normative code-mixing: Trinidadian children’s varilingual pronoun usage
First language, 2023 While monolingual English speakers acquire most pronouns by age 5, acquisition amid prevalent, normative code-mixing, such as in Trinidad, is underexplored.
S. Jackson
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Referential Dependencies in Turkish: Some Novel Arguments on the Binding of Kendisi, O and Pro
Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2023 The Turkish reflexive kendisi (self-3SG.POSS) deviates from Principle A of the Binding Theory and from the Minimalist movement approaches to referential dependencies.
Nazik DİNÇTOPAL DENİZ
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Dative antecedents for reflexives and pronouns [PDF]
Acta Linguistica Academica, 2020 AbstractThis paper aims to advance a comprehensive theory of binding, which can account for all binding patterns found in Polish, some of which are particularly puzzling for traditional and novel formulations of Binding Theory. Namely, Polish reflexive pronouns/possessives are typically (nominative) subject oriented but they can also have dative Object
Jacek Witkoś, Paulina Łęska
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Interpretation of Turkish reflexive anaphors: subjecthood vs semantic role
Proceedings of the Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic, 2023 The current study investigates what factors control the interpretation of Turkish third person reflexive anaphors kendi and kendisi. Our results indicate that, in certain contexts, kendi and kendisi behave alike, which is a novel finding.
Metehan Oguz, Elsi Kaiser
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A frequentist explanation of some universals of reflexive marking
Linguistic Discovery, 2008 This paper identifies a number of empirically observable universals of reflexive marking that concern the existence of a special reflexive pronoun and the length of the marker that is used in reflexive constructions, in various different positions of the
Martin Haspelmath
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Reflexives and reflexive constructions in Afrikaans
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2015 This article provides a non-formalistic description of the various reflexive pronouns in Afrikaans. In addition to the traditional class of reflexive pronouns, it is shown that possessive pronouns can also be used reflexively. The facts about (obligatory)
Oosthuizen, Johan
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Latvian reflexive verbs with paš- ‘self-’
Valoda nozīme un forma / Language Meaning and Form, 2023 The article addresses Latvian reflexive verbs with the derivational formant paš- ‘self-’. Paš- is the stem of the emphatic pronoun pats, meaning ‘oneself, by oneself, on one’s own’; thus, verbs derived with paš- are classified as compound verbs.
Daiki Horiguchi
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The Pronoun sobi Used as an Intensifier in Spoken Ukrainian. A Comparison with Russian and Italian
Studi Slavistici, 2020 Starting from the idea that intensification does not modify the notional meaning of an utterance, and that a morphological item can express more than just intensification, this article aims to present the peculiarities of the Ukrainian reflexive pronoun ...
Francesca Fici
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Synonymy between Token-Reflexive Expressions [PDF]
, 2020 Synonymy, at its most basic, is sameness of meaning. A token-reflexive expression is an expression whose meaning assigns a referent to its tokens by relating each particular token of that particular expression to its referent.
Radulescu, Alexandru
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Reflexive Pronoun Deviations in Contemporary English Social Media
Armenian Folia Anglistika, 2017 The paper discusses reflexive pronoun deviations in modern English in the domain of social media. The mentioned deviations are the result of intensive contact of English with other languages.
Gevorg Grigoryan
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