Results 11 to 20 of about 2,082 (266)
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
doaj +1 more source
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
openaire +1 more source
The interpretation of German personal pronouns and d-pronouns
Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, 2019 Three experiments investigated the interpretation and production of pronouns in German. The first two experiments probed the preferred interpretation of a pronoun in contexts containing two potential antecedents by having participants complete a sentence
Bader Markus, Portele Yvonne
doaj +1 more source
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.
openaire +3 more sources
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
doaj +1 more source
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
doaj +2 more sources
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
doaj +2 more sources
Zombies lost in translation. The translation from English to Spanish of (de)humanizing pronouns
Revista de Lingüística y Lenguas Aplicadas, 2019 The present paper analyses which strategies are used in order to express the personal/inanimate pronoun contrast that serves the function of (de)humanizing zombies, when passages containing this linguistic feature in English are translated into Spanish ...
Linda Flores Ohlson
doaj +1 more source
Corela, 2021 This paper is devoted to a singular use of definite descriptions in the online tabloids. Many definite descriptions, such as Jill Biden's husband to designate Joe Biden and Melania's husband to designate Donald Trump, appear unrelated to the subject ...
Mathilde Salles
doaj +1 more source
AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ GRAMMATICAL ERROR IN WRITING PERSONAL LETTER
ELT Echo: The Journal of English Language Teaching in Foreign Language Context, 2021 This study aimed to find out grammatical errors in writing personal letter and the most grammatical errors made by the eleventh graders of SMA Negeri 5 Ogan Komering Ilir. This study used descriptive qualitative research method.
Dewi - Sartika, Inka Sundari, Ratna Nery
doaj +1 more source