Pronouns: Grammar and RepresentationHorst J. Simon, Heike Wiese The contributions of this thematic collection center around the typology of pronominal paradigms, the generation of syntactic and semantic representations for constructions containing pronouns, and the neurological underpinnings for linguistic distinctions that are relevant for the production and interpretation of these constructions. They come from different theoretical approaches and methodological backgrounds and take into account data from a wide range of Indoeuropean and non-Indoeuropean languages. Bringing together a cross-section of recent research on the grammar and representation of pronouns, the volume offers a kaleidoscope of studies united by the common topic of pronouns as a domain of language that exemplarily shows the interaction of different components responsible for computational (syntactic and semantic), lexical, and discourse-pragmatic processes. |
Contents
A universal morphosyntactic | 23 |
The impact of an inclusiveexclusive opposition | 37 |
Reference devices in Sinhala | 63 |
Morphology and syntax | 85 |
Reference and representation of pronouns | 109 |
Anaphora relative pronouns and crossover | 137 |
The third person pronoun tripartite verbless clauses | 161 |
Pronominal nouns | 183 |
Harmonic alignment and the hierarchy of pronouns in German | 205 |
Cortical reflections of two pronominal relations | 233 |
Pronoun omission in Dutch and German agrammatic speech | 253 |
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1st person 2nd person 3rd person addressee agrammatic agrammatic speech analysis anaphoric antecedent argument binding Broca's aphasia Broca's area Cambridge Chandrasena Premawardhena Chomsky clitic constraints context coreference cross-linguistic definite description definite NPs deictic discourse discussed edge of vP encode English example gender geometry German Grodzinsky Group harmonic alignment hierarchy homophony Horst Simon inclusive inclusive/exclusive opposition indefinites interpretation intransitive determiners Japanese and Thai Japanese pronouns languages lexical marking morpheme morphological n-indefinites negation negative nominal noun object optimization paradigmatic structures paradigms person plural person pronouns phonological position pragmatic predicate present PRON pronominal pronoun omission quantifier Qumran R-pronoun formation referential reflexives representation restricted resumptive pronoun salience Section semantic sentence singular speaker specific Spoken Sinhala subject pronouns syntactic Syntax tensed thematic roles Theory third person pronouns tree Ty(e Ty(t underspecification unfixed node University unstressed untensed utterances verb verbless clauses vertical homophony vP/Pron Wackernagel movement