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Cockerham, Terence, Zero Anaphora and Meithei. Master of Arts
(Linguistics), December 2012, 73 pp., 2 tables, 2 figures, 26 titles.
The focus of this thesis is to determine what factors predict zero
anaphora in Meithei. The data for this thesis is derived from pear stories.
Arguments were tabulated in spreadsheets counting nouns, pronouns, and zero
anaphors; they were also examined for their semantic role and information
status. The findings showed the agent role was typically represented by
reduced forms of reference, the majority of the time by zero anaphora. Other
semantic roles were typically represented by lexical full forms of reference.
Agents were strongly correlated to previous subjects. Other semantic roles
were typically found in the other information status categories. The conclusion
drawn from these findings is semantic role and information status influence
accessibility, and accessibility determines whether or not arguments are
represented by zero anaphors in Meithei.
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Cockerham, Terence. Zero Anaphora and Meithei, thesis, December 2012; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc177189/m1/2/: accessed March 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .