We can sometimes use these question words instead of relative pronouns and prepositions.I live in a city. I study in the city.→ I live in the city where I study.→ I live in the city that / which I study in.→ I live in the city in which I study....
Resumptive Genitive Pronouns in Korean Relative Clauses: Distribution and ExplanationSong, Jae JungSong, J. J. (2003). Resumptive genitive pronouns in Korean relative clauses: Distribution and explanation. SKY Journal of Linguistics(16), 139-160....
Purchase Chapter PDF $42.00 Published by Become an author with De Gruyter Brill Explore this Subject How to publish with us This chapter is in the book Meaning as Explanation Italian pronouns and the virtue of relativemeaninglessness*Joseph DavisItalian's large and idiosyncratic inventory of ...
2) Which relative pronouns [RPs] (and which relativised grammatical functions) are used the most by the two groups? 3) What are the informational functions of the RCs used by both groups: identification-referential [restrictives] or predicative-attributive [non- restrictives]? 4) Where ...
One mechanism related to this is the use of resumptive pronouns. In Farsi relative clauses, the referent of the antecedent of the relative clause can be repeated in the relative clause with a pronoun. In line with the literature that claims that resumptive pronouns are optional in Farsi (Tag...
A potential alternative explanation for this effect is that the pronouns wij and ons differ in frequency. If the pronoun wij is more frequent, this may cause the shorter reading times for the object-relative clauses containing that pro- noun. However, this explanation cannot hold, since in ...
A while ago at work, I ran into a common problem: trying to decide whether to stop editing out a usage I don’t like. In this case, it was a particular use of “as such” that was bothering me. To me, “as such” is a prepositional phrase, and “such” is a pronoun that mus...
(i) possessive markers in the form of prefixes that occurred "directly" on inalienable nouns whose possessor they enco- ded; (ii) free or "indirect" possessive markers that were used to encode the possessor of alienable nouns, and; (iii) possessive pronouns that were not used adnominally ...
This variationist study analyzes the linguistic and social factors constraining the alternation of resumptive pronouns (RPs) and gaps in direct object (DO) relative clauses (RCs) in the Peruvian Limeño variety. Using a number of mixed-effects (logistic regression) models in Rbrul, results revea...