Each language, including English, uses deixis differently due to various distinct settings, such as grammatical restrictions and cultural or customary backgrounds in society. Descriptive qualitative research is the method used analyze data. As data-gathering instruments, human instruments text analysis were used. All of which are written form refer speaker, recipients, references who not speake...

In modern Danish, the reflexive pronouns sin and sig differ in terms of their ability to corefer with a plural antecedent. The possessive typically only allows singular antecedents pronoun both antecedents. Instead sin, speakers use non-reflexive deres antecedent.
 This difference between is fairly new. Up until beginning twentieth century, many used not but also primarily counterparts dem...

This paper discusses a quantity word alternation in Ch’ol, Mayan language of southern Mexico. Drawing on fieldwork and additional texts, I show that numerals, pejtyel ‘all,’ oñ ‘many/much’ may appear with possessive morphology. present evidence against generalized quantifier analysis these expressions provide an where the possessed are adjuncts co-indexed null pronoun. also consider between its...

1 Computation with doubling constituents: Pronouns and antecedents in Phase Theory Sandiway Fong Jason Ginsburg University of Arizona University of Aizu Abstract In the biolinguistics program, syntax has access to only limited and minimal operations such as Merge (and Move) plus local (to Phase) probe-goal, Chomsky (2000, 2001). Under this blueprint, the challenge for implementation is twofold:...

Within the categorical compositional distributional model of meaning, we provide semantic interpretations for the subject and object roles of the possessive relative pronoun 'whose'. This is done in terms of Frobenius algebras over compact closed categories. These algebras and their diagrammatic language expose how meanings of words in relative clauses interact with each other. We show how our ...

The present study aimed at examining the brain mechanism of the effect of self-relevant possessive pronoun (SRPP). Eighteen participants observed the following stimuli: "wo de" (Chinese for "my"/"mine"), "ta de" (Chinese for "his"), "wo" (Chinese for "I"/"me"), "ta" (Chinese for "he"/"him"), small circle and big circle. Relative to "ta de", "wo" and "ta", "wo de" elicited a significantly larger...

Accounts of clause-level phenomena such as inversion and obviation (Aissen 1997, 1999) make crucial reference to the relative ranking of two arguments, subject and direct object, on a person/animacy/discourse hierarchy. Are such pair-wise comparisons ever required within the NP? O’Connor (1999a,b) proposed an analysis of NP-internal case-marking of possessors in Northern Pomo that paralleled Ai...

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...

This study investigated startle reflex modulation in 33 healthy student participants during the processing of negated emotional items. To build upon previous research, our particular interest was to find out whether processing of negated emotional items modulates emotional responding in line with the logical meaning of the negated expression, or instead leads to paradox emotional effects that p...