RT Journal Article
T1 Pronoun omission and agreement: An analysis based on ICE Singapore and ICE India
A1 Tamaredo Meira, Iván
A1 Fanego Lema, Teresa
AB This article deals with pronoun omission in subject position and its connectionwith subject-verb agreement in Indian English and Singapore English. Agreementmorphology has been found to be a predictor and facilitator of pronounomission cross-linguistically in that it aids in the identification and retrieval ofthe referents of omitted pronouns. The results of a corpus study partly confirmthis trend, since they show that agreement morphology does have a weak facilitatingeffect in both varieties examined; that is, pronoun omission increaseswhen the subject and the verb agree in person and number. However, this is onlytrue for lexical verbs; non-modal auxiliaries (i.e., be, have, do), on the contrary,show a low percentage of omitted pronouns and no facilitating effect of agreementmorphology. To account for this finding, the possible inhibiting effect onpronoun omission of the frequency of co-occurrence of pronouns and non-modalauxiliaries was also explored.
PB Sciendo
YR 2016
FD 2016
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/31879
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/31879
LA eng
NO Tamaredo, I. & Fanego, T. (2016). Pronoun omission and agreement: An analysis based on ICE Singapore and ICE India. ICAME Journal, 40, pp. 95-118
NO European Regional Development Fund and the following institutions:Regional Government of Galicia (Directorate General for Scientific and TechnologicalPromotion, grant GPC 2014/004); Spanish Ministry of Economy andCompetitiveness (grants FFI2014-52188-P and BES-2015-071233)
DS Minerva
RD 24 abr 2026