This study examines the correct and incorrect use of local cohesive ties cohesion errors in written narratives eleven- to twelve-year-old Spanish learners English as a Foreign Language (EFL) at different proficiency levels. The was carried out with pairs who collaboratively wrote narrative text response picture prompt. young learners’ texts were examined identify their four categories: lexical,...

This paper is a qualitative and quantitative corpus-based study of how academic writers use the personal pronouns I and inclusive and exclusive we. Using a multidisciplinary corpus comprising of journal research articles (RAs) from the fields of Business and Management, Computing Science, Economics, and Physics, I present data extracts which reveal how I and we can help writers create a sense o...

Research from a variety of fields including psychology and linguistics have found correlations and patterns in personal attributes and behavior, but efforts to understand the broader heterogeneity in human behavior have not yet integrated these approaches and perspectives with a cohesive methodology. Here we extract patterns in behavior and relate those patterns together in a highdimensional pi...

This paper describes results of two corpus studies of information packaging of discourse referents in German dedicated to the following questions: • Do sentence-initial position, pronominalization and subject role assignment reflect a single underlying dimension of discourse salience or multiple dimensions ? • If there are multiple dimensions of salience, is it possible to associate them with a...

This study examined the relationship that personal pronouns spoken during a marital conversation have with the emotional qualities of those interactions and with marital satisfaction. Middle-aged and older couples (N = 154) engaged in a 15-min conflict conversation during which physiology and emotional behavior were continuously monitored. Verbatim transcripts of the conversations were coded in...

We show that reduced personal argument pronouns in Dutch and German surface in a proper subset of the positions accessible to full argument DPs. Therefore, we argue for a unified syntactic analysis, which takes both types of DPs to be subject to the same phrase structural principles and the same positioning rules, namely, XP-scrambling and XP“topicalization.” Our argument rests a.o.t. on the ob...