This article explores the variation between the emergent genitive its and the periphrastic form of it in Early Modern English, situating this case in the larger picture of English genitive variation. As previous studies have often focused on non-pronominal possessors (given that Present Day English pronominal possessors often appear prenominally, with limited variation), this early pronominal g...

In this paper, we employ the centering theory in pronoun resolution from the semantic perspective. First, diverse semantic role features with regard to different predicates in a sentence are explored. Moreover, given a pronominal anaphor, its relative ranking among all the pronouns in a sentence, according to relevant semantic role information and its surface position, is incorporated. In parti...

Languages that are classified as non-Sequence-of-Tense come in more than one variety (e.g., Arregui & Kusumoto 1998): some of these languages allow a past tense in beforeclauses while others do not. We propose that some languages have quantificational (existential) tenses, while others have pronominal (referential/bound) tenses. The past tense in before-clauses is ill-formed in a language that ...

Christopher Potts Fiengo and May (1994) seek to explain the absence of certain Principle C violations in elided structures by appeal to a mechanism of vehicle change, which realizes names as pronominal correlates in elided syntax. The impossibility of certain extractions shows that elided phrases contain anti-pronominal contexts (ACs)environments that preclude definite pronouns of various sort...

A puzzling observation, first noted in Austin 1956, is that the syntactic position of an adverb can affect the meaning of a sentence. (1) a. Clumsily he trod on the snail. (Austin 1956) b. He trod on the snail clumsily. (2) a. Cleverly, John dropped his cup of coffee. (Jackendoff 1972) b. John dropped his cup of coffee cleverly. (3) a. Louisa rudely departed. (McConnell-Ginet 1982) b. Louisa de...

State-of-the-art machine translation systems use strong assumptions of independence. Following these assumptions language is split into small segments such as sentences and phrases which are translated independently. Natural language, however, is not independent: many concepts depend on context. One such case is reference introduced by pronominal anaphora. In pronominal anaphora a pronoun word ...

This dissertation is primarily concerned with nontransparent output forms in Romance pronominal clitic combinations. The position is taken that pronominal clitics constitute hierarchical structures of morphological features. Each clitic is a subset of the structure shown below:

he this himself o bu kendi she that herself onu bunu kendisi it these itself onun bunun kendim his those themselves onlar bunlar kendin her others onları bunları kendimiz him onların bunların kendiniz its şu kendileri they şunu them şunun their şunlar şunları şunların Pronominal Anaphora in English Pronominal Anaphora in Turkish Abstract—In this paper we present a computational model for pronom...