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Theories on the Evolution of the Spanish Unstressed Personal Pronouns
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Basic writers, oral strategies, and the writing process
… (coordinating conjunctions, hedges, neuter pronouns, collocations, etc.) -- Features of interaction (personal pronouns, hyperbole, emphatics) -- Textual analysis evaluation -- Comparison of written words, oral features, and essay grades or scores received.
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Basic writers, oral strategies, and the writing process
… (coordinating conjunctions, hedges, neuter pronouns, collocations, etc.) -- Features of interaction (personal pronouns, hyperbole, emphatics) -- Textual analysis evaluation -- Comparison of written words, oral features, and essay grades or scores received.
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Motivaciones comunicativas para la expresión de sujeto en secuencias clausales correferenciales en español
… strategy for the use of the meanings of the personal pronouns and nominal phrases available for the speaker’s communicative purposes, and that this discourse strategy forestalls the competition for the status of discourse theme in the presence of competitors in the context. The meaning of the …
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L1 English L2 German learners' grammaticality judgments and knowledge of demonstrative pronouns
… explores the acquisition of German demonstrative pronouns by second language learners of German whose native language is English. Unlike German, which allows for both personal pronoun usage (er, sie, es etc.) and demonstrative pronoun usage (der, die, das etc.) to refer back to antecedents, …
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Projected self: the de se across dimensions and beyond pronouns
… as well as by expressions which are not really pronouns, such as nouns. First of all, it provides evidence that expressives are necessarily de se, which means that non-pronominal expressions, such as nouns, verbs etc. can be de se in a non-assertive dimension. Next, it examines in full detail …
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Choose Your Words: Refining What Counts as Mathematical Discourse in Students' Negotiation of Meaning for Rate of Change of Volume
… symbolic interactionism (Blumer, 1969) with personal agency (Walter & Gerson, 2007) to assert that human choice reflects, but is not determined by, meanings that are primarily developed through social interaction. The process of negotiation of meaning is identified, described, and analyzed in …
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Haec fortis sequitur illam indocti possident: A linguistic analysis of demonstratives in genres of early Latin fragments
… role, affective force, co-occurrence with personal pronouns, and use in multimembral demonstrative sets. This study provides the first quantitative evaluation of demonstrative use for often neglected authors of Early Latin. It also identifies those theories regarding demonstrative use that …
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The teller in the tale : aspects of narratorial voice in the novels of George Eliot
… such as direct address, strategic use of personal pronouns, narrative metalepsis, invitations to the reader to superimpose his or her own "fabula" onto/into the story being read, and reflective prudential commentary that applies equally to the phenomenological world as to the world of the …
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Reading behaviors of deaf young adults: A study of the use of sign language and the resolution of reference in connected discourse
… in ASL. In this study the structures included personal pronouns and ellipsis. The influence to reading comprehension of knowing and using two different languages was assessed by accounting for those places in the text where the readers were seen using ASL when they were asked to sign merely in …
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Mapping the Internalization of Parts of Speech in the Spoken Interlanguage of Adult American Learners of Russian from Level 1 to Level 3
… of speech at a different pace, with nouns and personal pronouns being internalized in the Intermediate range of speaking proficiency, while the operationalization of verbs, adjectives, adverbs, relative pronouns kotoryi, and conjunctions is more strongly in evidence at the Advanced range of …
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Coordination and concord in generalized categorial grammar
… pronominal cliticization, and stressed full personal pronouns, which are seen furthermore to be linked semantically and pragmatically by issues of reference and topicality.
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Regional Dialect Levelling and Language Standards: Changes in the Hønefoss Dialect
… of local linguistic variants in variables 3pl personal pronouns and <rd>. The force behind the regional dialect levelling is not the Oslo dialect only, however. Overt and covert attitudinal data show that the influence is twofold and that the codified written variety of Norwegian, Bokmål, …
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Shifting selves : identity quests and innovation in the novels of Marguerite Duras, Patrick Modiano, and Marie Darrieussecq
… the connection between the authors' use of personal pronouns and narrative tenses and the imperatives of the identity quest. While Duras's novels and Modiano's earlier works have been extensively studied, Modiano's later writing and the totality of Darrieussecq's literary output have not yet …
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Processing negative imperatives in Bulgarian : evidence from normal, aphasic and child language
… inflexion, bound aspectual morphemes and clitic pronouns in child, adult and aphasic language. In contrast to other Slavic languages, Bulgarian negative imperatives (NI) are grammatical only with imperfective verbs. We argue that NI are instantiations of overt aspectual coercion induced by the …
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First-person singular pronouns in Japanese: How do they work in conversation?
… range of languages. First-person singular (1SG) pronouns may be one of the most fundamental linguistic items for expressing subjectivity because they directly reflect the speaker, who is the owner of subjective point of view. This dissertation explores the use of 1SG pronouns in Japanese …
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El uso de pronombres personales en la oralidad mexicoamericana de Houston, Texas
… examined the +/- presence of Spanish subject personal pronouns (yo, él/ella, nosotros/nosotras, and ellos/ellas) in sociolinguistic interviews of 36 Mexican-Americans from Houston, Texas (16 of 2nd generation and 20 of 3rd generation), and 20 Mexicans (control group) from Heroica Matamoros, …
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Novel ways to measure future-oriented cognition: Using parent-report measures and open-ended responses to explore young children’s future thinking development
… task explanations included more first-person personal pronouns compared to the Spoon task, but explanations did not differ in other pronoun use. Together, these studies show that use of a parent-report measure and examination of children’s open-ended responses offer unique insight into the …
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