The Processing of Chinese Reflexives as Plain Anaphors and Intensifiers

ANAPHORS BEFORE INTENSIFIERS: NAFS-X IN HEBREW AND ARABIC ∗

English Reflexive Anaphora: A Pragmatic and Discourse-Based Approach

Pragmatics is of great importance in the study of linguistics, especially when it comes to interpreting language within a specific context. This article looks at reflexive anaphora in English from a pragmatic and discourse point of view, focusing on the way in which context helps in determining the antecedent of a refl...

Mandarin Chinese wh-relatives are wh-interrogatives: Compositionality, accessibility and intensionality

The pragmatics of the Chinese marked zero anaphor

This article discusses emergent empirical data about the Mandarin Chinese collective suffix ‑men, in that it is able to mark a zero anaphor. This is a marked zero pronoun, a covert element (a zero anaphor) marked by an overt element (‑men). The licensing of this anaphoric element has yet to be captured, which is appr...

Pragmatics and prosody in production and comprehension of scopally ambiguous sentences

In this paper, we analyze scopally ambiguous Russian sentences containing sentential negation and NPs with the quantifier ‘all’ following the verb. While prosody has been shown to disambiguate scope in artificial examples lacking pragmatic cues, we aimed to examine its role in real usage, including production and c...

ELLIPSIS AND TRANSFORMATION OF PROVERBS IN ENGLISH AND UZBEK LANGUAGES

This article investigates the structural and pragmatic transformations of proverbs in spoken and written discourse, focusing specifically on the phenomenon of ellipsis. Traditional paremiology views proverbs as fixed, static, and syntactically complete units. However, modern cognitive linguistics and discourse analysis...