scholarly journals The Use of Sing along Song in the learning of the Possessive Adjective and Possessive Pronoun

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nurnadirah binti Khairul Annuar Asya’ari ◽  
Melor Md Yunus
Keyword(s):  
Possessive Pronoun

Applying Possessive pronoun in Writing Sentences: Exploring Students’ Ability and Problems in a Mixed Method Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 79-83
Author(s):  
Eka Utami Putri ◽  
Syahdan Syahdan
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Method ◽  
Simple Random Sampling ◽  
Average Score ◽  
Mixed Method Study ◽  
Z Score ◽  
Possessive Pronoun ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
The Common ◽  
Common Problems ◽  
Essay Test

The purpose of this research was to find out the students' ability in applying Possessive pronoun in writing sentences and the problems encounter it.  This mixed method study employs an explanatory design to reveals it. 53 students out of 105 students from1st semester EFL students from one reputable University in Pekanbaru, Indonesia, were invited to this study. These 53 students were selected using simple random sampling and enrolled for an essay test and interview to see the students' ability and explaining the problems. The data analysis using SPSS showed that the average score of students was 52.98. Meanwhile for the median is 48, the mode is 20. The score of Standard Deviation is 27.93, Variance is 780.25, and Range is 84.  Z-Score was found 41.5%, which is means higher than average and 58.5% while, students' ability was indicated below the average. It showed that the students were low ability in applying possessive pronoun in writing sentences. The study also found the common problems, i.e., (1) students still mixed up between possessive pronoun and possessive adjectives. (2) students used the wrong pattern in using a possessive pronoun. (3) students did not understand clearly about a possessive pronoun, (4) experiencing difficulties in learning possessive pronoun. 

Searching the Self: Encoding Self-relevant Possessive Pronoun and Theta Activity

2013 ◽  
Vol 45 (7) ◽  
pp. 790-796
Author(s):  
Aibao ZHOU ◽  
Shifeng LI ◽  
Zhan SHI ◽  
Peiru LIU ◽  
Ruixue XIA ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Theta Activity ◽  
The Self ◽  
Possessive Pronoun

scholarly journals “Here’s to you, dear Janko, on your birthday...” On the ways of addressing people in Slovak (and something over and above that)

2019 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
pp. 627-651
Author(s):  
Mira Nábělková
Keyword(s):  
80Th Birthday ◽  
Possessive Pronoun ◽  
Special Regard

AbstractJán Bosák’s passing away before reaching of his 80th birthday has given an impulse for a reflection on the ways of addressing people in Slovak, with special regard to vocative and non-vocative forms of the name Ján [Slovak equivalent of John]. The attention is partially also given to comparison with Czech – in contrast to standard Slovak where vocative forms have declined similarly as in the dialects of Central Slovakia, the vocative forms in standard Czech are still alive. Besides the use of nominative hypocoristic/diminutive forms Jano, Janko, Janík, Janíčko as common ways of addressing people, the study also mentions the use of a compound addressing with possessive pronoun in post-position (Jano môj, Janko/Janík/Janíčko môj) which represents a specific substitute for the vocative forms in Slovak. In addition, the study deals with the vitality of vocative case in Slovak dialects and in common communication. It also offers a few probes into “textual life” of the historic vocative form Jane, especially in ethnoculturally rare Slovak midsummer songs (e.g. Jane, Jane, Vajane) and in the spiritual poetry of Ján Hollý.

scholarly journals The male bias of a masculine generic pronoun: Evidence from eye-tracking and sentence evaluation

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theresa Redl ◽  
Stefan L. Frank ◽  
Peter de Swart ◽  
Helen de Hoop
Keyword(s):  
Eye Tracking ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Possessive Pronoun ◽  
Male Bias ◽  
Gender Information

Two experiments tested whether the Dutch possessive pronoun zijn ‘his’ gives rise to a gender inference and thus causes a male bias when used generically in sentences such as Everyone was putting on his shoes. Experiment 1 (N = 120, 48 male) was a conceptual replication of a previous eye-tracking study that had not found evidence of a male bias. The results of the current eye-tracking experiment showed the masculine generic pronoun to trigger a gender inference and cause a male bias, but for male participants and in neutral stereotype contexts only. No evidence for a male bias was thus found in stereotypically female and male contexts and for female participants altogether. Experiment 2 (N = 80, 40 male) used the same stimuli as Experiment 1, but employed the sentence evaluation paradigm. No evidence of a male bias was found in Experiment 2. Taken together, the results suggest that the masculine generic pronoun zijn ‘his’ can cause a male bias for male participants when no other gender information is provided, but only surfaces with a method such as eye-tracking, which taps directly into automatic language processing. Furthermore, the results suggest that the intended generic reading of the masculine possessive pronoun zijn ‘his’ is readily available for women.

The integration of languages and society

2021 ◽  
pp. 288-311
Author(s):  
Dineke Schokkin
Keyword(s):  
Language Contact ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Family Members ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Linguistic Landscape ◽  
Possessive Pronoun ◽  
High Diversity ◽  
Education Work

This chapter discusses traditional small-scale multilingualism in Southern New Guinea (SNG), in connection with the expression of possession in one of the languages spoken here: Idi. SNG is a high diversity region with many languages and families attested, and individuals tend to be highly multilingual. Throughout the area, patterns of language contact are grounded in established cultural practices of intermarriage. A system of symmetrical sister exchange produces many linguistically exogamous marriages. Children from such marriages usually acquire both their father’s (their primary or “emblematic” language of identification) and their mother’s language. Other languages are picked up from other family members and as people travel within the region or further afield for education, work or church activities. Practices of receptive multilingualism are widely reported. Idi has two types of possessive pronoun, termed “close” and “distant” possessive. Which type of possessive is used appears to be driven partly by semantics, based on alienability, and partly by pragmatics. The chapter looks specifically at how Idi speakers use possessives in the context of discussing the languages they speak. The linguistic landscape of the region is reflected in Idi, in the ways that possessive forms are used to refer to the different languages speakers acquire during their lifetime.

The use of the Korean first person possessive pronoun nay vis-à-vis wuli

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-53
Author(s):  
Hye-Kyung Lee
Keyword(s):  
Social Mobility ◽  
Close Connection ◽  
First Person ◽  
Possessive Pronoun ◽  
Foreign Loan ◽  
Strongly Coupled ◽  
Loan Words ◽  
Kinship Term ◽  
Younger Generation ◽  
The Difference

Abstract This paper takes a corpus-driven approach to the Korean first person possessive pronoun nay with reference to its plural counterpart wuli. The examination of the frequent noun collocates of the two pronouns in Sejong Corpus reveals the close connection between nay and inalienable entities as well as persons lower than the speaker. Meanwhile, wuli is strongly coupled with places or organizations alongside persons higher than the speaker. Pragmatic principles account for the difference between the kinship term collocates of the two pronouns, such as Horn’s (1984; 1989) R-principle or Levinson’s (2000) M-principle. The non-prototypical singular use of wuli triggers a pragmatic effect of expressing, for example, affection. The frequent collocation of nay with foreign/loan nouns is a reflection of the tendency that people more interested in social mobility (younger generation and women) are more ready to employ nay rather than the singular wuli and to accept foreign/loan words. The meaning of nay emerging from its interaction with noun collocates is that it is closely connected with being inalienable, private, or unshared. Meanwhile, the singular meaning of wuli is pragmatically derived, which is construed as being grouped, deferent, or general.

Gettin’ together a posse

2013 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natasha Abner
Keyword(s):  
American Sign Language ◽  
Sign Language ◽  
Relative Clause ◽  
American Sign ◽  
Possessive Pronoun ◽  
Verbal Predicate ◽  
Possessive Constructions

This article addresses the derivational relationship between attributive (nominal) and predicative (verbal) possessives marked by the poss sign in American Sign Language. Though traditionally classified as a possessive pronoun, a collection of morphological, syntactic, and semantic patterns is presented here as evidence that poss instead displays the distributional characteristics of a verbal predicate in the language. Classifying poss as a verbal predicate of possession explains its presence in predicative possessives and allows its attributive use to be derived from this underlying verbal structure as an instance of a prenominal reduced relative clause modifier. These base structures and their interaction with other components of the predicative and attributive domains explain the documented properties of attributive and predicative poss possessives, including, crucially, the sometimes divergent behaviors of these two possessive constructions.

scholarly journals Applying Possessive Pronoun in Writing Sentences: Exploring Students’ Ability and Problems in a Mixed Method Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 89-93
Author(s):  
Syahdan Syahdan ◽  
Eka Utami Putri
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Method ◽  
Simple Random Sampling ◽  
Average Score ◽  
Mixed Method Study ◽  
Z Score ◽  
Possessive Pronoun ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
The Common ◽  
Common Problems ◽  
Essay Test

The purpose of this research was to find out the students' ability in applying Possessive pronoun in writing sentences and the problems encounter it.  This mixed method study employs an explanatory design to reveals it. 53 students out of 105 students from1st semester EFL students from one reputable University in Pekanbaru, Indonesia, were invited to this study. These 53 students were selected using simple random sampling and enrolled for an essay test and interview to see the students' ability and explaining the problems. The data analysis using SPSS showed that the average score of students was 52.98. Meanwhile for the median is 48, the mode is 20. The score of Standard Deviation is 27.93, Variance is 780.25, and Range is 84.  Z-Score was found 41.5%, which is means higher than average and 58.5% while, students' ability was indicated below the average. It showed that the students were low ability in applying possessive pronoun in writing sentences. The study also found the common problems, i.e., (1) students still mixed up between possessive pronoun and possessive adjectives. (2) students used the wrong pattern in using a possessive pronoun. (3) students did not understand clearly about a possessive pronoun, (4) experiencing difficulties in learning possessive pronoun. 

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