This paper offers a new LFG analysis of possessive DPs in Hungarian. This account is designed to overcome two difficulties that the majority of previous generative approaches had to face: (a) the problem of the (a)symmetrical cohead relationship between the noun head and the possessive marker (b) the problem of dual theta role assignment in GB (or its LFG equivalent) when the noun head is relat...

Alario and Caramazza (2002) have suggested that during noun production, gender and phonological information are both involved in determiner selection, although they act independently. They also suggested that this process occurs later in French than in other languages like German and Dutch. One possible reason is that in French, some determiner forms depend on the initial phoneme of the noun (e...

Any grA-ar must aocou~t for the category of possessiv-ity. As far as we ~now this category is not yet exhaustively described for any language. In this paper we want to demonstrate an explicit approach to this complicated language phenomenon. The functional generative grammar proposed by Sgall and worked out in the group of Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, is chosen for th...

Participants in this study were 66 British toddlers who were observed at home with familiar peers on two occasions, six months apart. The majority of toddlers spoke to their peers, with short sequences of conversation emerging after the age of 24 months. The use of possessive pronouns emerged between 18 and 24 months of age and consolidated over the next year. Toddlers who said ‘mine’ were also...

Psychological investigations of pronoun resolution have implicitly assumed that the processes involved automatically provide a unique referent for every pronoun. We challenge this assumption and propose a new framework for studying pronoun resolution. Drawing on advances in discourse representation and global memory modeling, this framework suggests that automatic processes may not always ident...