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The secret life of pronouns
This thesis explores the relationship between anaphora and movement on a wide array of data primarily from Russian. I argue that anaphors and pronominals are underlyingly the same syntactic entity, an index, whereas conditions A and B of binding theory should be substituted by principles regulating …
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English pronouns: Default case and conversion
… consists of English structures which include pronouns that occur with unexpected Case features. Through the course of this analysis, a separate but related phenomenon of category conversion is also explored. Culminating in a preliminary analysis from a cross-linguistic perspective, the study …
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Gender in English pronouns : myth and reality
… and Newfoundland, namely the use of "gendered" pronouns (primarily he and him) to refer to inanimate objects such as a tree or a watch: "I can't climb him" or "He's a good watch". <br> Background analyses include an overview of the history of gender in English as well as sketches of the …
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After binding : on the interpretation of pronouns
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1984.
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Effects of embedded pronouns on relative clause processing
… the pronoun facilitation occurs; whether all pronouns have the same effect; whether SRs are also affected by embedded pronouns; whether children perform like adults on such structures; and whether performance is related to cognitive abilities such as memory or grammatical knowledge. Several …
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On the semantics of phi features on pronouns
… relating to the semantics of phi features on pronouns. Part I focuses on gender features on pronouns. Following previous studies (Cooper 1983, Heim & Kratzer 1998), I claim that they are presupposition triggers. Based on this assumption, I show that predicates containing bound gendered …
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The Acquisition of Subject Pronouns in Second Language Spanish
… like Spanish. Pro-drop languages allow subject pronouns to be expressed overtly, as in the Spanish phrase Yo veo (I see), or null, as in Veo (*Ø see). Studies show that native speaker distribution of subject pronouns deals with the interface of narrow syntax and features of discourse, semantics, …
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The Acquisition of Subject Pronouns in Second Language Spanish
… like Spanish. Pro-drop languages allow subject pronouns to be expressed overtly, as in the Spanish phrase Yo veo (I see), or null, as in Veo (*Ø see). Studies show that native speaker distribution of subject pronouns deals with the interface of narrow syntax and features of discourse, semantics, …
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Generic pronouns and their influence on the speakers' language awareness
The English language is a genderless language in which nouns receive grammatical gender through natural gender assignment. The generic pronoun encoded in English is the pronoun he, which next to its secondary meaning of the generic also has the primary meaning of the third person masculine …
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Theories on the Evolution of the Spanish Unstressed Personal Pronouns
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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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A study of the Japanese reflexive pronouns, zibun and zibun-zisin
The behavior of various types of anaphors may be classified into two types, local and long-distance anaphors. The English reflexive 'himself' and the Japanese reflexive 'zibun' representatively characterize the two types of anaphors. They contrast in that 'himself' is a local anaphor, whereas …
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Sarvanāmaprakaraṇam. Tracing the relevance of pronouns by reading navya vyākaraṇa commentaries
… the other sūtras, and not only those devoted to pronouns, to finally present a complete analysis of this commentary.
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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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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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Interpretation and processing of overt pronouns in Korean, English and L2-acquisition
… research questions (RQs): 1) How are overt pronouns in Korean interpreted? 2) How are overt pronouns in Korean processed? 3) How do the properties of overt pronouns in Korean affect Korean-speaking English-learners’ interpretation and processing of English pronouns? Experiment 1 examined RQ …
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