The historical development of person markers in Japanese: the roles of linguistic signs by Yamaguchi, T.

“…It begins by assessing two recent papers by Heine and Song that use grammaticalisation theory as a tool to account for personal pronouns. Due to their rich semantic content, Japanese person markers belong to the open class and thus are not compatible with the concept of grammaticalisation. …”

The Use of Pronouns of Power and Solidarity in Turkish by Zülal Balpınar

“…The study will fit in the latter category. Second person pronouns used in formal and familiar settings have been analyzed from various points of view. …”
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Les pronoms : quelques problèmes de délimitation de la catégorie by Jérôme Puckica

“…It is argued that determiners are also grammatical nouns, yet that the distinction between determiners and pronouns is motivated and descriptively useful in at least some cases, most particularly with regard to the articles and the personal pronouns.…”
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Theatres of Intimacy in Lucy Caldwell’s and Jan Carson’s Short Fiction by Lea Sinoimeri

“…It then discusses the dramatic quality of the inner monologues that are staged in these spaces, first, by establishing a parallel with uses of the monological form in radiophonic art and second, by scrutinising the performative effects of the use of the second-person pronoun. It concludes by drawing attention to the complex ways in which Caldwell and Carson foster intimacy with their reader by blurring the lines between reading and listening.…”
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Représentations de soi et modalités by Manuel Rebuschi

“…Personal pronouns can refer to some physical representation (like a statue or a photograph) of a person rather than to the person herself. …”
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Towards a Computational Theory of Definite Anaphora Comprehension in English Discourse by Sidner, Candace Lee

“…The investigation centers on the interpretation of definite anaphora, that is, on the personal pronouns, and noun phrases used with a definite article the, this or that. …”
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<i>Mina tahan, aga sina vaata</i>. Eri tähendusega verbide ja isikuliste asesõnade omandamisest eesti keeles by Reili Argus

“…The acquisition of different verb classes and personal pronouns in Estonian. The article gives an overview of the acquisition of the person category, i.e. both personal pronouns and verbs occurring with them, in Estonian on the basis of spontaneous speech data (20 hours in total) of an Estonian child (age 1;4–3;0). …”
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ARABIC Verbs & Essentials of Grammar / by Wightwick, Jane, author, Gaafar, Mahmoud, author

“…The article and personal pronouns ; 21. Genders ; 22. Sentences without verbs ; 23. …”

Grotesque themes as Representatives of Reality by Basilius Bawardi, Reem Ghanayim

“…Specific examples of these phenomena are found in his Ḍamīr al-Ghā’ib (Third Person Pronoun) (1990) and Ḥārisat al-Ẓilāl (Guardian of the Shadows) (1997), in which human beings take on other forms by means of bizarre devices, and in which state terrorism mingles with Islamic terrorism in an atmosphere of comedic horror. …”
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Self-mention in the academic discourse of ELF writers by Maňáková Monika

“…Some data proved to be of greater statistical significance (the use of personal pronouns) while other data did not carry any (the use of boosters).…”
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The development of the English-type passive in Balinese by Hiroki Nomoto

“…A hypothesis about how the third person pronoun became a passive marker and how various passive sub-types came into existence is proposed. …”
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“I am with you”: second-person narration in Ron Butlin’s novel “The sound of my voice” by Maziarczyk Grzegorz

“…On the basis of narratological studies the author identifies the major features of this experimental narrative mode, in which the protagonist and the addressee are a single character addressed by the second-person pronoun. Butlin’s work employs you in reference to the protagonist, a 34-year-old alcoholic, and the figure of the narrator becomes visible only towards the ending of the novel. …”
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Sharing Feelings and User Engagement on Twitter: It’s All About Me and You by Elad Segev

“…This study explores how the expression of feelings and the use of personal pronouns on Twitter are associated with user engagement. …”
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Existential Constructions, Definiteness Effects, and Linguistic Contact: At the Crossroads between Spanish and Catalan by Jorge Agulló

“…Existential sentences in Spanish are sensitive to the definiteness or quantification restriction or effect, which prevents personal pronouns, proper nouns, and definite constituents from occupying the pivot position. …”
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The Role of Language in Prophetic Movements’ advertisements in Harare, Zimbabwe by Lovemore Mutonga, Laston Mukaro

“…The study established that Prophetic Movements employ code-switching and mixing, slang, interrogatives, imperatives, salutations and personal pronouns to lure potential congregants. The use of these linguistic strategies is motivated by the need to persuade congregants to attend the events being advertised. …”
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Code-switching in an institutional setting: negotiating social roles in bilingual encounters in Guatemala by Jinsook Choi

“…Drawing from studies on code-switching and politeness, I examine the ways in which speakers utilize the available language resources—Spanish and K’iche’ on the one hand, and second-person pronouns on the other—to negotiate social roles in institutional interactions. …”
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Gender Agreement Mismatches in Heritage Greek by Artemis Alexiadou, Vasiliki Rizou, Nikolaos Tsokanos, Foteini Karkaletsou

“…We will show that the mismatches observed differ with respect to the agreement target between groups, i.e., noun phrase internal agreement seems more affected in the adolescent group, while personal pronouns appear equally affected. We will argue that these patterns suggest retreat to default gender, namely neuter in Greek. …”
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Estudio descriptivo del componente ideológico en la didáctica de la interpretación simultánea: el discurso político argumentativo. A descriptive study of the ide... by AMADOU KANE

“…Results of the analysis point to a lack of functional adequacy between the original discourse and the target texts, which is reflected at various levels of language, especially in the personal pronouns, neologisms and grandiloquent phrasing.…”
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Analytic tendencies in modern Polish and Russian by Wojciech Sosnowski

“…During the study of analytic tendencies in morphology, it was necessary to examine personal pronouns as this part of speech seems to be the most stable as far as other forms except nominative are concerned. …”
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STUDENT’S MISTAKES AS MIRROR OF STRUCTURAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN PORTUGUESE AND RUSSIAN LANGUAGES by G. . Petrova

“…The alternation of anaphoric and cataphoric usage of personal pronouns in Russian and Portuguese phrases, structural distinctions in sentence construction, verbal structure in Portuguese versus nominal structure in Russian, the possibilities of metonymic transfer usage and abstract nouns translation in plural are examined. …”
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