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...

The goal of this chapter is to shed light on the notion of pronominal anaphora and to take a closer look at their syntactic behaviour. After a brief definition of the term itself, we will investigate in which contexts they occur. Of course, one question that arises is whether some general patterns can be observed – how do pronominal anaphora generally behave, and do we find exceptions? Moreover...

Nominative-Genitive Conversion (NGC) in Japanese, which is also called Ga/No Conversion, is one of the most well-studied phenomena in Japanese syntax (see Harada 1971, 1976, Bedell 1972, Shibatani 1975, Nakai 1980, Saito 1983, 2004, Miyagawa 1993, to appear, Watanabe 1996, Hiraiwa 2001, 2005, and Ochi 2001, to appear, among many others). NGC is a Case alternation phenomenon in which the nominat...

Pronominal affixes in polysynthetic languages have an ambiguous status in the sense that they have characteristics normally associated with free pronouns as well as characteristics associated with agreement markers. This situation arises because pronominal affixes represent intermediate stages in a diachronic development from independent pronouns to agreement markers. Because this diachronic ch...

We conducted a large-scale corpus analysis indicating that pronominal object relative clauses are significantly more frequent than pronominal subject relative clauses when the embedded pronoun is personal. This difference was reversed when impersonal pronouns constituted the embedded noun phrase. This pattern of distribution provides a suitable framework for testing the role of experience in se...

This paper deals with Tamil pronominal resolution using Conditional Random Fields a machine learning approach. A detailed linguistic analysis of Tamil pronominals and its antecedence occurring in various syntactic constructs is done, which led to the selection of appropriate features for CRF approach. The syntactic features thus identified made the system learn most frequently occurring pronoun...

The loss of regular case endings in modern German has led to highly syncretic noun paradigms that neutralise many of the distinctions retained in more conservative determiner and adjective paradigms. Genitive and dative are, for all intents and purposes, the only cases marked in noun paradigms. Strong nonfeminine nouns have a genitive singular in -s. Strong nouns whose plural ends in a schwa or...