Exploring the function and distribution of generic pronouns: The example of German man and du [PDF]
, 2010 This work examines the research to date on generic pronouns – that is, items such as English one and German man – and suggests how this can be advanced through empirical means.
Linthe, Anna
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Ambiguity on the use of ‘Kita’ personal pronoun among foreign students
, 2022 The aim of the study is to examine the ambiguity of The Malay Language Personal Pronoun (PP) among foreign students. The objective of this study is to identify and analyze ambiguity in the use of the reference ‘Kita’ Personal Pronoun among foreign ...
Abdul Kadir, Fatin Rabiha +3 more
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Personal Pronoun Morphology [PDF]
, 2015 The structure of personal pronouns in Beng was thoroughly described in (Paperno 2005). Here we reproduce pronoun paradigms with minimal comments on the usage of pronoun series. Table 3.
Paperno, Denis
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The characteristics and the communicative function of pronouns (Western and Eastern European languages) [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2020 Grammatical and syntactic characteristics of pronouns are mainly considered based on the material of French grammatical system, which implemented the analytical tendencies of the Latin language in the course of evolution. It has been established that the
Epifantseva Nataliia +3 more
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Agreement with coordinated subjects containing a personal pronoun: Experimental data from Russian
Rhema, 2023 The article examines Russian predicative agreement with a coordinated subject containing personal pronouns. In cases when the conjuncts have different person features, the choice of person agreement is based on the person hierarchy; it is considered to be an almost universal mechanism. However, the corpus and experimental data presented in this article
D. D. Belova, T. I. Davidyuk
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Korean Learners’ Acquisition and Use of Variable First-Person Subject Forms in Spanish
Languages, 2021 Within the scope of research that lies at the intersection of sociolinguistics and second language acquisition, there is a growing body of empirical work on learners’ acquisition of variable subject expression in Spanish.
Avizia Y. Long
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An analysis of asymmetries in subject personal pronoun usage in brazilian portuguese and spanish
Gragoatá, 2022 The main purpose of this article is to reflect on first-person personal pronoun usage in Brazilian Portuguese and Spanish. Although both languages allow null subjects (Chomsky, 1981), the strategies used by Brazilian Portuguese and Spanish speakers differ regarding overt subject pronoun expression.
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Grammatical Role Parallelism Influences Ambiguous Pronoun Resolution in German
Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 Previous research on pronoun resolution in German revealed that personal pronouns in German tend to refer to the subject or topic antecedents, however, these results are based on studies involving subject personal pronouns.
Antje Sauermann, Natalia Gagarina
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This is personal: Impersonal middles as disposition ascriptions
Glossa, 2018 We develop an analysis of impersonal middles which capitalizes on the observed similarities between personal and impersonal middles, and on Lekakou’s (2004; 2005a) treatment of the former as disposition ascriptions. The following questions are addressed:
Marcel Pitteroff, Marika Lekakou
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An experimental investigation of the binding options of demonstrative pronouns in German
Glossa, 2018 This paper discusses data from two self-paced reading experiments as well as an acceptability rating study that shed light on the binding behaviour of demonstrative pronouns as opposed to personal pronouns.
Andreas Brocher, Stefan Hinterwimmer
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