Introduction: This paper presents an experiment that investigates which factors govern the referring preferences of two types of subject pronouns in Catalan: null pronouns, with no phonological content, and overt pronouns, which carry gender and number features. Since it is generally assumed that the more reduced an anaphoric expression is, the more salient its antecedent will be (Ariel, 2001),...

Prosodically reduced pronouns come in two forms, “weak” and “clitic,” both differing from non-reduced “strong” pronouns. Both of these also occur in Westgermanic dialects and exhibit different properties which cannot always be unambiguously disentangled. The theoretical framework presented here allows us a straightforward disambiguation: reduced pronominal elements in the left periphery must be...

negative-maker affixes are those linguistic elements that are widely used in word making. the function and the type of each of these affixes are unique and different from others. the russian affix ??-, for example, in its combination with pronouns and adverbs, makes non-referential sentences that use the infinitive form of the verb, while the affix ??- in its combination with pronouns and adver...

Selected Dialectal Pronouns from South-Eastern Poland (Outline)
 The author of this article discusses the structure, origin and functions dialectal pronouns which occur in local dialect Posada Jaśliska near Krosno. is a village three cultures: Polish, Lemko Slovakian. describes mutual influences these languages on shaping collection pronouns, with particular emphasis that are typical area ...

This paper proposes a method to resolve intrasentential references of Japanese zero pronouns suitable for application in widely applicable and practical machine translation systems. It is highly effective because the volume of knowledge that must be prepared beforehand is not so large and its accuracy is good. This method focuses on semantic and pragmatic constraints such as conjunctions, verba...

The goal of the paper is to try to account for an interesting binding phenomenon, namely the fact that pronouns sometimes appear to be bound by universal quantifiers out of islands. Specifically, my claim is that the appearance of binding is an illusion which results from the fact that pronouns can stand for universal quantifiers, i.e. there is a new type of pronouns of laziness. However, the d...

The aim of this paper is to report the distribution of Spanish zero pronouns in three different genres: legal, encyclopaedic and instructional. The Z-corpora were created for this purpose and a sample of 1043 zero pronouns was annotated. The most salient patterns of distribution are compared for each genre, and some relevant issues concerning the use of zero pronouns are described in relation t...