One of the key requirements in understanding a text is deciding how successive utterances relate to one another. Anaphors help in this respect by picking out entities already existing in the discourse and indicating the referent to which the new information encoded in the utterance should be attached. Sometimes, the interpretation of an anaphor is determined entirely by the morphosyntactic feat...

PURPOSE Prior work (Guo, Owen, & Tomblin, 2010) has shown that at the group level, auxiliary is production by young English-speaking children was symmetrical across lexical noun and pronominal subjects. Individual data did not uniformly reflect these patterns. On the basis of the framework of the gradual morphosyntactic learning (GML) hypothesis, the authors tested whether the addition of a the...

This paper presents a descriptive overview and formal analysis of the use of pronominal clitics for realizing various types of arguments in Persian, with particular emphasis on object clitics in the verbal domain. We argue that pronominal clitics behave more like suffixes than independent syntactic elements; in cases where they take syntactic scope over an NP or a PP, they must be phrasal affix...

Abstract. Adjuncts contribute to the spatiotemporal anchoring of events and situations described by linguistic expressions, while arguments describe the participants of events and situations. We show how a deterministic parser, based on the recovery of asymmetric relations, enables the identification of adjuncts as possible antecedents to pronouns, whether they are located in the domain of the ...

Abstract In a passage from Apollodorus’ Against Neaera ([Dem.] 59.113), the manuscripts have unanimously transmitted feminine plural genitive of ‘citizen’, πολιτίδων . Since Reiske's 1770 emendation, however, editions text printed considerably more common masculine form, πολιτῶν Emphasizing importance female citizenship in Athens, this note proposes restoring manuscript reading text.

This paper outlines an approach to the stage-by-stage solution of the computer-linguistic problem of the processing of quantitative expressions with measurement units by means of the linguistic processor NooJ. The focus is put on the nominative, genitive, and accusative cases for Belarusian and Russian. The paper gives a general analysis of the problem providing examples not only for Belarusian...

The Turkish reflexive kendisi (self-3SG.POSS) deviates from Principle A of the Binding Theory and Minimalist movement approaches to referential dependencies. This paper concurs with Kornfilt (2001) provides further support that kendi-si is preceded by a null possessor (pro) which influences its binding but argues not reflexive. Kendisi’s distribution changes when pronominal or an overt (o, ‘she...