personal pronouns in iranian languages and dialects

a corpus-based study of the frequency of personal pronouns in translated and comparable non-translated persian texts

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Morphology and cross dependencies in the synthesis of personal pronouns in Romance languages

This paper describes some of the problems that arise from the synthesis of personal pronouns in a system tlrat generates texts in Romance languages. It puts the emphasis first on the fact that fire morphological level has to be t aken hire account early in the generation process, second on the numerous "cross dependency" phenomena which are to b,; found when the synthesis of an element X depend...

Pragmatic relativity: Gender and context affect the use of personal pronouns in discourse differentially across languages

Speakers need to use a variety of referring expressions (REs) (e.g. full noun phrases, pronouns or null forms) in pragmatically appropriate ways to produce coherent narratives. Languages, however, differ from each other in terms of a) whether REs as arguments can be dropped or not and b) whether personal pronouns encode gender or not. Here we examine two languages that differ from each other in...

The Short Vowels /i/ and /u/ in Iranian Balochi Dialects

The aim of the present paper is to study the status of the short vowels /i/ and /u/ in five selected Iranian Balochi dialects. These dialects are spoken in Sistan (SI), Saravan (SA), Khash (KH), Iranshahr (IR), and Chabahar (CH) regions located in province Sistan va Baluchestan in the southeast of Iran. This study investigates whether these two vowels have the same qualities as the short /i/ an...

Discrimination of Spoken Languages and Dialects

Proclitic vs enclitic pronouns in northern Italian dialects and the null - subject parameter

Since the seminal work by Brandi and Cordin (1981; 1989), Burzio (1986) and Rizzi (1986), the unstressed subject pronouns of northern Italian dialects (NIDs) have been considered (clitic) heads different from, for example, their French preverbal counterparts, which are considered maximal projections, namely ‘phonological clitics’ (Kayne 1983) or ‘weak pronouns’ (Cardinaletti and Starke 1999). A...