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In general, reflexive pronouns do not form a large percentage of postverbal pronouns.

This pattern was maintained at 4 years except that verb-alone responses were replaced with more pronoun-verb responses.

The same pronoun is used for both masculine and feminine individuals and for subject and object case roles.

A pronoun was coded as ' uncertain ' if its referent could not be determined.

I am now in a position to suggest that the best and most promising way of understanding quasi-indicators is along the lines of logophoric pronouns.

Most of the recurring verbs (have, do, make) do not establish useful selectional preferences, and most of the noun phrases are actually semantically weak pronouns.

The children's utterances were coded for the informational status of any referring expressions using four categories: full noun, pronoun, null, and no response.

The pronoun it might have been a bit awkward here followed by plus.

Moreover, in natural discourse of all kinds, for both adults and children, pronouns are strongly preferred over full nouns, especially as subjects.

This suggests that readers' initial strategy was to assign co-reference between the subject pronoun in the second clause and the subject of the first clause.

Likewise, the obligatory fronting of this constituent places even the zero pronoun in the normal position of the relatives.

However, the relevant correlation of stress and deictic use appears to be restricted to third-person pronouns.

This construction also has a pronoun subject, but it repeats the reference to "we" from the adult question, with the needed object specifically named postverbally.

The figure shows that all personal pronouns except for the third-person singular ones have increased.

The subject of this sentence (any listener) is grammatically singular, but the pronoun, which refers back to it, is plural (their).

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