We examine demonstrative pronouns in a portion of the Santa Barbara Corpus of American English and propose a coding scheme that classifies pronouns with nominal as well as non-nominal antecedents into direct and indirect, depending on whether their referent is the same as the referent/denotation of the antecedent. In agreement with previous studies, we find that demonstratives more often have n...

research article (ra) genre has been a significant area of research in academic writing over past decades. however, authors’ identity in ras has not received much attention, especially in soft sciences like applied linguistics. this paper reports a corpus analysis of iranian writers’ authorial presence markers in ras in the field of applied linguistics. the corpus comprised 30 ras (200,000 word...

studies related to the second language acquisition have frequently focused on the role of mother tongue. since the learner’s knowledge in the first language provides a basis to compare it with that of second language, it is assumed that being aware of the learner’s prior knowledge is affective in the syllabus design which itself is a crucial element in teaching. in this study personal pronouns ...

In this paper we describe the results of unsupervised (clustering) and supervised (classification) learning experiments with the purpose of recognising the function of singular neuter pronouns in Danish corpora of written and spoken language. Danish singular neuter pronouns comprise personal and demonstrative pronouns. They are very frequent and have many functions such as non-referential, cata...