The present study was aimed at exploring the use of pronominal reference for identity representation in terms of power and solidarity in English political discourse. The investigation was based on a corpus of four political interviews and debates amounting 26,500 words. The analysis was both qualitative and quantitative. In the qualitative analysis, a discourse-analytic approach was used to fin...

Self-reference said to be ‘de se’ is often explicated by reference the grammatical first Person (1 p ), but nature or necessity of this link are unclear and have not been investigated systematically from a linguistic point view. We argue that 1 in referential unbound position matrix clause, as occurring an embedded clause with agreement , provides necessary sufficient conditions for speaker exp...

the verb in russian language is a part of speech which involves several grammatical features. regarding methods of expressing the person, we can classify it in two major groups: personal verbs and non-personal verbs. the difference of these two groups is in their expression and inexpression of the person as a grammatical category. the purpose of this research is to consider ways of declaring th...

The paper studies the grammar features that characterize Moscow revision of Book Needs (Trebnik), composed under patriarch Nikon (1658). research is based on a comparison Nikon’s and Peter Mogila’s (1646) Trebniks. study confirmed scientific statement Nikonian editors revised Trebnik in accordance with recommendations edition M. Smotritsky’s Grammar. This shown, for example, use certain endings...

Previous approaches to pronominalization have largely been theoretical rather than applied in nature. Frequently, such methods are based on Centering Theory, which deals with the resolution of anaphoric pronouns. But it is not clear that complex theoretical mechanisms, while having satisfying explanatory power, are necessary for the actual generation of pronouns. We first illustrate examples of...