A typology of non-prototypical uses of personal pronouns: synchrony and diachrony

Helmbrecht, Johannes

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2014.10.004

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“…This framework has been labelled "chatting", and three instances have been detected in the two comedies 17 . The analysis will show how these communicative frameworks show a non-prototypical use of PPs, which should be interpreted not as mere deictic but as carrying different pragmatic meanings according to the context (Helmbrecht 2015).…”

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Pragmatic use of ancient greek pronouns in two communicative frameworks

Meluzzi¹

2022

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This paper deals with the use of personal pronouns (PPs) in Ancient Greek in two Aristophanes’ comedies (i.e.LysistrataandEcclesiazusae). The main purpose of this study is to show that Ancient Greek PPs often have a pragmatic function, in particular linked to the speaker’s communicative goals. The analysis highlights the presence of a gender-related distribution and a context-dependent use of personal pronouns. In particular, male characters prefer 1st person singular pronouns, whereas female characters use more 1st person plural pronouns with an inclusive value. Moreover, in two communicative frameworks it is possible to notice how PPs are used for their value of membership categorization. In this respect PPs can be considered possible markers ofautonomíaorafiliación(see Bravo 1999). Some peculiar instances of referential ambiguities concern in particular the use of 1st and 2nd person plural pronouns in both comedies.The analysis shows that use of Ancient Greek PPs varies according to gender and context. Moreover, it is clear that in both comedies this variation should be explained mainly as a pragmatic strategy of membership categorization, thus showing instances of non-prototypical uses of PPs similar to other languages (e.g. Spanish, English, Modern Greek).

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“…The first property does not appear in our data, which represent only a small part of the production of a single author. However, Ancient Greek PPs appear to vary according to the pragmatic and the discourse context, thus showing two of the three properties of non-prototypical use indicated by Helmbrecht (2015).…”

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Pragmatic use of ancient greek pronouns in two communicative frameworks

Meluzzi¹

2022

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“…Recent years have seen an outpouring of research on pronominal impersonal constructions defocusing the agent in the described event (e.g. Achard 2015, van der Auvera et al 2012, de Cock & Kluge 2016, Creissels 2008, Egerland 2003a, 2003b, Helmbrecht 2015, Jensen 2009, Kitagawa & Lehrer 1990, Malchukov & Siewierska 2011, Malchukov & Ogava 2011, Malamud 2007, Moltmann 2010, Prince 2006, Rudolf 2014, Rudolf & Sansò 2007, Sansò 2006, Słoń 2007, Zifonun 2001. The occurrence of referential ambiguity of this kind has been well documented in various particular languages, although Swedish seems clearly underrepresented in this context.…”

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The third person plural impersonal in Swedish. A typological account

Data-Bukowska

2019

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The third person plural impersonal in Swedish A typological account S ł o w a k l u c z e : konstrukcje nieosobowe; zaimek osobowy; szwedzki; nieosobowe odczytania zaimka; rozmyta referencja; agent K e y w o r d s : impersonals; 3 pl personal pronoun; Swedish; impersonal readings; vague reference; agent defocusing 1 I am very grateful to the anonymous referees for the careful reading of the paper and for their comments which helped me to improve the paper.

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“…(Xu, 1999:5) 3) 3SG > impersonal generic use The impersonal uses of personal pronouns mean that they can be related to an indefinite referent in a particular context (see Kitagawa & Lehrer, 1990;Biq, 1991 inter alia). In terms of the degree of individuation, Helmbrecht (2015) categorizes this usage into two classes, viz., generic use and specific use: The former means that the personal pronoun refers to a generalized group, whereas the latter relates the personal pronoun to an arbitrary individual. In general, personal pronouns in Chinese can be impersonally used to have a generic meaning, as shown in (3). (3) 不管是谁，只要年满十八周岁，他都有选举权。 Buguan shi shui, zhiyao nian man shibazhousui, ta no matter SHI who, as long as age reach 18 years old generalized group dou you xuanjuquan.…”

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“…Interestingly, the 2SG pronoun may also be used as a 3PL one, as shown in (5). (5) 王国军心里咒骂着，"这些吃着我们的大米、穿着我们的衣服来屠杀我们的王八蛋！你就是远在天边，我也要让炮弹追上你。"杨笑影《赤子之心》 Wang Guojun xinli zhouma zhe, "zhexie chi zhe women de dami Wnag Guojun silently swear ASP these eat ASP 1PL DE rice chuan zhe women de yifu lai tusha women de wangbadan! wear ASP 1PL DE clothes come slaughter 1PL DE bastard ni jiushi yuanzaitianbian, wo ye yao rang paodan zhuaishang ni."…”

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Non-prototypical Uses of Personal Pronouns in Chinese

Hu¹

2018

Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Humanities (ICCESSH 2018)

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Helmbrecht (2015) presents an interesting typological study on the non-prototypical uses of personal pronouns, demonstrating that the form-meaning mismatch involving personal pronouns is essentially discourse-based, in the sense that the referents of personal pronouns dynamically vary with a particular context, and hence some kind of additional pragmatic meaning tends to be encoded into them. Based on his study, Helmbrecht proposes two hypotheses about how the phenomena at issue could be grammaticalized: (i) Plural pronouns may shift to singular ones; (ii) third-person pronouns may shift to second-or first-person ones, but not vice versa. From a more extensive typological perspective, we present in this article some Mandarin Chinese patterns to complement his generalization of personal pronouns.The abbreviations used in this article is in line with those in Helmbrecht"s study: 1, 2, 3 = first, second, third person; SG = singular; PL = plural; INCL = inclusive; EXCL = exclusive; > = this symbol translates as "used as" or "changed to"; lower case indices in Table 1 indicate the number of tokens of speech act role, e.g. 22-n = 2 up to n hearer.3rd International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Humanities (ICCESSH 2018)

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A typology of non-prototypical uses of personal pronouns: synchrony and diachrony

Cited by 59 publications

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Pragmatic use of ancient greek pronouns in two communicative frameworks

Pragmatic use of ancient greek pronouns in two communicative frameworks

The third person plural impersonal in Swedish. A typological account

Non-prototypical Uses of Personal Pronouns in Chinese

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