city of beer *beer city beer’s city biiru-no machi activity Coach of bags bags Coach *bag’s Coach kaban-no Koochi trade park at 3 o’clock *3 o’clock park *3 o’clock’s park 3-ji no koen time relative in Tokyo Tokyo relative *Tokyo’s relative Tokyo-no shinseki location face of Peter *Peter face Peter’s face Peter-no kao part-whole bag of Peter *Peter bag Peter’s bag Peter-no kaban possession Engl...

This paper used self-paced reading to test processing preferences in pronoun interpretation in English two clause sentences. The results demonstrate that people’s preferences can be reversed by changing the coherence relation between the clauses. The results are not compatible with the existence of a single all-purpose strategy in pronoun resolution. Rather, the results support Kehler’s (2002) ...

is paper discusses the analysis of some important features of the English possessive construction, a topic that has long interested linguists from many traditions. At least since the work of Jespersen , the properties of English possessives have served as examples and justification for a variety of theories of grammatical organization, and their analysis is certainly a matter of interest in...

The present study uses event-related potentials to investigate how crosslinguistic (dis)similarities modulate anticipatory processing in the second language (L2). Participants read predictive stories English that made a genitive construction consisting of third-person singular possessive pronoun and kinship noun (e.g., his mother) likely an upcoming continuation. pronoun's form depended on ante...

The phonological feature [±stress] distinguishes between strong pronouns (which are capitalized here and henceforth) and others. The semantic feature [±animate] distinguishes between what I call unstressed pronouns and weak pronouns (cf. Cardinaletti & Starke (1996)). The phonological feature [±reduced] distinguishes between weak pronouns and reduced pronouns; the only reduced pronoun in Standa...

This article explored the use of Indonesian pronouns by young people in Indonesia. The way which they erodes culture encoded pronouns. They kamu (you, second-person singular pronoun), kalian plural kita (we (you and me), first-person kami (not including you), pronoun) that do not comply with grammar. data was collected observing language used among younger generation online everyday speech. ana...

This study investigates the effect of coherence relations and accent on pronoun reference. Participants heard sentences like John saw Jeff, and Jane called him, and indicated which noun the pronoun referred to. Here, the pronoun is said to be ambiguous because it can refer either to John or to Jeff. The sentences had one of two different types of coherence relations (Kehler, 2002), and were var...

Possessive DPs are “complex” in the sense that they involve two distinct nominal expressions as components.1 In this paper I address the issue of characterizing the nature of the syntactic relation holding between these two nominal expressions in possessives whose possessum is arguably not a syntactic argument-taking category. This amounts to providing an account of what licenses the insertion ...