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.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc177189 |
| Date | 12 1900 |
| Creators | Cockerham, Terence |
| Contributors | Chelliah, Shobhana L., Munshi, Sadaf, Ross, John Robert, 1938- |
| Publisher | University of North Texas |
| Source Sets | University of North Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | Text |
| Rights | Public, Cockerham, Terence, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights Reserved. |
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