Slovenian comitative constructions with dual personal pronouns

Plural Comitative Constructions in Polish

This paper provides a treatment of Polish Plural Comitative Constructions in the paradigm of HPSG in the tradition of Pollard and Sag (1994). Plural Comitative Constructions (PCCs) have previously been treated in terms of coordination, complementation and adjunction. The objective of this paper is to show that PCCs are neither instances of typical coordinate structures nor of typical complement...

personal pronouns in iranian languages and dialects

the study of internal structure and functions of pronouns across languages can be useful for typological, theoretical as well as descriptive studies. personal pronouns in iranian languages and dialects have been investigated in the present study. the study has indicated that the pronouns are in clitic as well as free morphemes. the study also indicated that the languages and dialects benefit fr...

Personal Constructions of Holiday Snapshots

Comitative Coordination in Q’anjob’al

I argue that the cross-linguistic morpho-syntactic diversity of expressions for ’and’ corresponds to a diversity of semantic interpretations. My work is based on a case study of Q’anjob’al (Mayan, Guatemala) which presents several ways of expressing ’and’. Q’anjob’al employs both a comitative conjunction yetoq ‘with’, and a European-style conjunctions k’al and i ‘and’, freely applicable to vari...

Beyond salience: Interpretation of personal and demonstrative pronouns

Three experiments examined the hypothesis that it preferentially refers to the most salient entity in a discourse, whereas that preferentially refers to a conceptual composite. In Experiment 1, eye movements were monitored as participants followed spoken instructions such as, Put the cup on the saucer. Now put it/that. . .. The preferred referent was the theme (cup) for it and the composite for...