Pronouns in Ginyanga

Repeated Names, Overt Pronouns, and Null Pronouns in Spanish.

In two self-paced, sentence-by-sentence reading experiments we examined the difference in the processing of Spanish discourses with repeated names, overt pronouns, and null pronouns in emphatic and non-emphatic contexts. In Experiment 1, repeated names and overt pronouns caused a processing delay when they referred to salient antecedents in non-emphatic contexts. In Experiment 2, both processin...

Emphatic Pronouns*

Translations of Ambiguous Hindi Pronouns to Possible Bengali Pronouns

In a Hindi to Bengali transfer based machine translation system the baseline lexical transfer module replaces a Hindi word by its most frequent Bengali translation. Some pronouns in Hindi can have multiple translations in Bengali. The choices of actual translations have big impact on the accessibility of the translated sentence. The list of Hindi pronouns is small and their corresponding Bengal...

Demonstrative Pronouns in Natural Discourse

We examine demonstrative pronouns in a portion of the Santa Barbara Corpus of American English and propose a coding scheme that classifies pronouns with nominal as well as non-nominal antecedents into direct and indirect, depending on whether their referent is the same as the referent/denotation of the antecedent. In agreement with previous studies, we find that demonstratives more often have n...

Pronouns in a Minimalist Setting

Introduction This paper starts from the observation that the Binding Theory (viz. Chomsky 1981, 1986) is problematic from a minimalist perspective. More specifically, if one assumes that reflexives move, then principle A should be dispensed with. However, if one dispenses with principle A, then principle B becomes very problematic and should be rethought. This paper considers how to do this. Th...