In this paper we present an analysis of the relationship between the Spanish clitic pronoun system and the Binding Theory. Spanish clitic pronouns have a dual behaviour; in the proclitic case, they behave like independent lexical units, hence proper clitic, but on the enclitic case they are hence morphological affixes (i.e. inflexions). In the first case, the clitics stand for pronouns, therefo...

A n experiment was conducted in the 5 erboCroatian language in which native speakers/readers made lexical decisions on inflected nouns and legally inflected pseudonouns following inflected possessive pronouns. A possessive pronoun and the noun or pseudonoun that followed it could agree in case, gender, and number (0 violations), disagree in eithe1' case or gender or number (1 violation) or disa...

The puzzle addressed here is the appearance of the POSS sign, pictured at right above, in both attributive (1a) and predicative (2b) possessive constructions.2 Patterns in the morphosyntax and semantics of POSS possessives reveal that the underlying function of POSS across these constructions is that of a verbal predicate. The analysis of POSS as a verbal predicate is transparently supported by...

This article reports the results of an experiment on production of his/her in English as a second language (L2) by proficient native speakers of Italian, Spanish, and Dutch. In Dutch and English, 3rd person singular possessive pronouns agree in gender with their antecedents, in Italian and Spanish possessives in general agree with the noun they accompany (possessum). However, while in Italian t...

The paper presents a tentative overview of pronouns in Ginyanga, an understudied Kwa language spoken Togo and Ghana; particular, personal pronouns, reflexive demonstratives, quantifiers. There are no subject Ginyanga. We define two pronoun series with designated for each noun class: basic (emphatic possessive) object. set is used independent possessive contexts, as well constructions. Guang sys...

Reflexives (e.g. himself ) and pronouns (e.g. him) are usually distin-guished by categorical conditions on their binding domains. However, there is aclass of English expressions of the form Possessive Pronoun+ass (e.g. your ass)which we demonstrate to have pronominal properties but which appear to haveunrestricted binding domains. We explore the problems such expressions pose fo...

This research investigated 12-month-olds' ability to use person-specific language to determine to which of several absent things a person is referring. Infants were introduced to two experimenters who played separately with a different ball. One researcher asked infants to retrieve her object when both balls were hidden. Infants selected the correct object when researchers used the pronoun my, ...

The ultimate objectives of this research were to find out the kinds English personal pronouns errors in translating simple sentences from Bahasa Indonesia and most dominant made by students tenth grade SMKS Agro Maritim Muhammadiyah Bengkulu using a pronoun. This study employs descriptive-qualitative method. has conducted academic year 2021/2022, consisting 13 students. first result displays th...

In Malagasy, spatial deictic adverbials and certain PPs may carry the prefix t-. This prefix is usually analyzed as a past tense marker, since oblique predicates take twhen denoting past states, while oblique modifiers typically require twhen the verb is marked for past tense. It is generally assumed that ‘tense matching’ is mandatory. Here, however, I present data showing that past tense verbs...