…EMORY AND LANGUAGE 29,469-492 (I!?%) Measuring Inhibition and Facilitation from Pronouns MARYELLEN C.MACDONALD Massachusetts Institute of Technology AND BRIAN MACWHINNEY Carnegie Mellon University Two cross-modal experiments investigated changes in activation levels for pronomina…

…I: 10.5281/zenodo.10185960 Ida Toivonen English is not a pro-drop language, and pronouns cannot be left unpronounced like subject pronouns can in Italian. However, possible pronoun omission is not an all-or-nothing phenomenon. Haegeman (1990) and Weir (2008) discuss the restricte…

…akes copious use of much of the material that he himself collected. Indeed, the pronouns and the allied personal marking system of the verb in Cushitic, at first sight probably more than any other area of morphology, provided the evidence of relationship between Cushitic and othe…

…on of the pronoun. Given the rarity of clefts, and even more so ones containing pronouns, demonstration that children comprehend clefts in the same way that adults do would suggest that children draw on innate linguistic knowledge and not their linguistic experience in interpreti…

…ckernagel enclitics -(m)a, -(y)a as well as stressed indefinite and correlative pronouns. I argue that Hittite provides novel data on the syntax-prosody interface as reflected in the operation of the second position constraint: the words belonging to group (b) combine properties …

…ect. If the pronoun is indeed a copula we 2 The form of the singular 3rd person pronouns in NA is variable: šū/šūtu and šī/šīti, both occur multiple times in similar contexts in our corpus (Luukko 2004: 133). For an attempt to distinguish differences between them, see Hämeen-Antt…

… and the point of establishing reference is not reached yet. On the other hand, pronouns, which are co-referential with an antecedent, clearly have access to the referent and its properties, and hence may show semantic agreement even with weakly hybrid agreement nouns. More gener…

8 PRONOUNS 8.1 Introduction The pronominal system of Sumerian is only partly known. Due to the accidents of textual transmission, some pronouns are far better documented than others. A few pronouns occur so rarely in the texts that only their approximate forms and meanings can be…

…nominal morphology of especially the third person masculine singular and plural pronouns, as they are described by the early Arabic grammarians, how they appear in the the descriptions of the canonical and non-canonical reading traditions and finally the pronominal systems as the…

Nous versus on: Pronouns with first-person plural reference in synchronous French chat Rémi A. van Compernolle The Pennsylvania State University This article explores variation in the use of the pronouns nous and on for first- person plural reference in a substantial corpus of Fr…

… also deal with negative and privative functions. Keywords: grammaticalization, pronouns, indefiniteness, negation. 1. Introduction This paper has three goals. First, it examines the grammaticalization that the noun ‘thing’ has undergone in Tupi-Guarani languages and it makes som…

…lative Clause Typology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 4.1.1 Resumptive pronouns in Arabic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 4.1.2 The interaction of syntax and pragmatics . . . . . . . . . . . 128 4.1.3 Mixed Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . …

…al syntactic dependencies, and show no significant interactions with possessive pronouns which ostensibly appear to mark the discourse argument of the keyword they are suffixed to, it is concluded that the mapping is of semantic nature. Other than exemplifying basic facts obtaine…

…on in the linguistics and (especially) philosophical literature. Some anaphoric pronouns are referring expressions that inherit their referents from other referring expressions. For example, on the anaphoric reading of (3) “He” inherits its referent from “John”, which is said to …

Language in which certain pronouns may sometimes be omitted A pro-drop language (from "pronoun-dropping") is a language in which certain classes of pronouns may be omitted when they can be pragmatically or grammatically inferable . The precise conditions vary from language to lan…