Pronouns: Grammar and Representation

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Horst J. Simon, Heike Wiese
John Benjamins Publishing, 2002 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 291 pages
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.
 

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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
Language index
285
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