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Categories and Frequency: Cognition Verbs in Spanish Subject Expression

open access: yesLanguages, 2021
Are semantic classes of verbs genuine or do they merely mask idiosyncrasies of frequent verbs? Here, we examine the interplay between semantic classes and frequent verb-form combinations, providing new evidence from variation patterns in spontaneous ...
Catherine E. Travis   +1 more
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THE STRATEGIES APPLIED BY EFL LEARNERS TO OVERCOME MORPHO-SYNTACTIC DEVIATION IN SECTION 2 OF TOEFL TEST IN A PESANTREN-BASED UNIVERSITY

open access: yesEternal (English, Teaching, Learning & Research Journal), 2021
The study aims at revealing the morphological and syntactical deviations patterned by EFL students, and their strategies to respond structure and written expression of TOEFL-Like Test. 70 students participated in this study.
Abdur Rofik
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Between anaphora and deixis...the resolution of the demonstrative noun-phrase ‘that N’ [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Three experiments examined the hypothesis that the demonstrative noun phrase (NP) that N, as an anadeictic expression, preferentially refers to the less salient referent in a discourse representation when used anaphorically, whereas the anaphoric pronoun
Cowles, H Wind   +2 more
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Experimental evidence for 2SG direct object pronoun preferences in Brazilian Portuguese

open access: yesRevista Linguística, 2018
We examine the competition in Brazilian Portuguese 2SG direct object pronoun expression between clitic te and tonic você (e.g. Eu te vi ~ Eu vi você). We offer data from an online forced-choice survey, analyzed using mixed-effects logistic regression, to
Scott A. Schwenter   +4 more
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‘Me inda nampak’ – Pronoun Use in Malay-English Codemixed Social Media Texts

open access: yesJ-Lalite, 2020
This paper investigates the use of English the first-person singular object pronoun ‘me’ as a subject in conversation on WhatsApp and Telegram between university students in their twenties. It was found that the feature occurs more when interlocutors are
'Aqilah Aziz
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First-person singular and third-person subject pronoun variation: The case of Mexican Spanish in the U.S. state of Georgia

open access: yesLenguaje, 2021
The current study analyzes variable subject pronoun expression (SPE) for first-person singular (1sg) and third-person subjects in a variety of Mexican Spanish spoken by first-generation Mexican immigrants in the state of Georgia, Southeastern U.S ...
Philip P. Limerick
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Design and enhanced evaluation of a robust anaphor resolution algorithm [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
Syntactic coindexing restrictions are by now known to be of central importance to practical anaphor resolution approaches. Since, in particular due to structural ambiguity, the assumption of the availability of a unique syntactic reading proves to be ...
Stuckardt, Roland
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Anaphora resolution and word-order across adulthood: Ageing effects on online listening comprehension

open access: yesGlossa, 2020
In this visual-world paradigm we investigated the processing and interpretation of two overt subject anaphoric expressions in Greek, a null-subject language with a relatively free word-order, in relation to specific linguistic properties and whether ...
Ana I. Pérez Muñoz   +2 more
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AGE-RELATED SEMANTIC AND STYLISTIC FUNCTIONS OF PRONOUN I-ONE IN THE SPEECH OF UPPER-CLASS ENGLISHMEN

open access: yesSovremennye Issledovaniâ Socialʹnyh Problem, 2019
The article is devoted to the analysis of previously unstudied age-related specific in functioning of the subject pronoun I-one in the speech of British social elite.
Irina Aleksandrovna Tislenkova   +2 more
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Reflexives and reflexive constructions in Afrikaans

open access: yesStellenbosch 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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