This study looks at Discourse-linking effects in Mauritian Creole relative clauses where the use of a resumptive pronoun triggers a reading whereby one or more individuals is selected from a contextually-defined subset of individuals. Mauritian Creole resumptives confirm Erteschik-Shir’s (1992) hypothesis concerning the ‘restrictive focus’ reading. Resumption is also incompatible with Sells’ (1...

Some studies find that positive affect can induce self-focused attention, but other studies find no effect. We suggest that the contrary findings result from how selfawareness was measured. One group of participants listened to happy or neutral music; another group imagined and described a happy or neutral event. Two measures of self-focus were then taken. The experiment replicated past finding...

∗ School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, London WC1H OXG, UK. E-mail: [email protected]. Most of the first author's work on this paper was done while he was a Research Staff Member in the Computer Science Department of the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center † Sietec Systemtechnik (Siemens AG), D-13623 Berlin, Germany. E-mail: [email protected] The second author’s work o...

OBJECTIVE To create a highly accurate coreference system in discharge summaries for the 2011 i2b2 challenge. The coreference categories include Person, Problem, Treatment, and Test. DESIGN An integrated coreference resolution system was developed by exploiting Person attributes, contextual semantic clues, and world knowledge. It includes three subsystems: Person coreference system based on th...

Abstract Coreference processing of Control constructions and their pronoun-containing counterparts can be studied experimentally using priming or interference paradigms. We replicate findings in a study on non-finite Norwegian (Larsen & Johansson, 2020) contrast them with finite effects grammatical maze (G-maze) design. asked participants to read sentences word-by-word select the grammatica...

Abstract The goal of this paper is to revisit the so-called aspectual se , frequently cited over last three decades as a new function reflexive pronouns in Spanish and other languages, which refers facultative uses pronoun where it has no effect on valency or diathesis verb. I will focus four empirical problems that such accounts face when dealing with corpus data: requirement delimited object ...

1The case specification on the gloss of the verb here indicates the verb’s case requirement on the NP realizing as the free relative clause. 2Two cases are defined to match in terms of case form iff either (i) they are identical or (ii) the forms of case-inflecting items of the person and gender in question are identical in both cases. (E.g. nominative and accusative match when the pronoun is i...

It has been noted that examples with extractions out of relative clauses have attested in Danish, Norwegian and Swedish are judged to be unacceptable Icelandic Faroese. We hypothesize this may reflect whether or not speakers tend prepose unstressed object pronouns as a way establishing coherent discourse. In article we investigate what extent pronoun preposing is used Swedish, Faroese there any...

This paper investigates the production of restrictive relative clauses (henceforth RRCs) in Heritage Greek contact with US English. In Greek, RRCS are introduced either by pronoun o opios ‘the who’ which agrees nominal head it modifies and is preferred formal registers; or un-inflected complementizer pu 'that', appears mostly colloquial speech. English, RRCs non-agreeing pronouns who that. The ...