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Peer reviewedHaegeman, Liliane – English Language Teaching Journal, 1980
The construction "won't" is ambiguous: it can be a prediction by the speaker based on his assumptions, or it may be a report of what the expressed subject of "won't" said. "I talked to them and they won't come" could mean "I predict they won't come" or "they refused to come." (PJM)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Semantics, Structural Analysis (Linguistics), Syntax
Peer reviewedPollard, Carl; Xue, Ping – Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 1998
Proposes that the distinction between syntactic and nonsyntactic use of reflexives is not necessarily one of lexical ambiguity, positing one type of referentially dependent element (reflexives) which have two options for being related to their antecedents (syntactic binding and discourse conference). The paper focuses on Chinese reflexive ziji and…
Descriptors: Chinese, Linguistic Theory, North American English, Pronouns
