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Open Linguistics, 2018 This paper investigates the logophoric pronoun system of Finnish, with a focus on reference to animals, to further our understanding of the linguistic representation of non-human animals, how perspective-taking is signaled linguistically, and how this ...
Elsi M Kaiser
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Topics in Linguistics, 2020 This paper deals with the notion of logophoricity as a phenomenon pertaining to discourse, not grammar. An examination of the discourse role configurations (discourse environments) proposed by Peter Sells has shown that particular configurations are ...
Hirschová Milada
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Three types of verbal logophoricity in African languages
Studies in African Linguistics, 2002 The term logophoric is most strongly tied to pronominal systems. However, most recent literature on logophoricity accepts the existence of verbal marking of logophoricity.
Timothy Jowan Curnow
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Logophoricity, Perspective, and Reflexives
Annual Review of Linguistics, 2021 The notion of logophoricity is used to characterize linguistic elements sensitive to perspective.
Isabelle Charnavel
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Anti-reflexivity and logophoricity: an account of unexpected reflexivization contrasts
Glossa, 2020 In this article, I will provide an account of unexpected reflexivization contrasts (URCs) which have been problematic for analyses of English reflexives since the early days of Generative Grammar (Jackendoff 1969; Postal 1968; Lakoff 1968).
Giuseppe Varaschin
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Natural language & linguistic theory, 2022 This article provides a solution to the long-standing puzzle of English anaphors within so-called picture noun phrases, which superficially exhibit an exceptional binding behavior.
Isabelle Charnavel, S. Bryant
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Glossa, 2022 Many kinds of linguistic expressions are perspective-sensitive, including predicates of personal taste and some anaphoric forms. This paper reports three experiments testing sentences like “Nora told/heard from Kimberly about the frightening photograph ...
Elsi Kaiser
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Syntax, Volume 26, Issue 2, Page 223-249, June 2023., 2023 Abstract It was first observed over a decade ago that the presence of experiencers leads to degradation in English tough movement. In the literature, this has been linked to either syntactic or semantic intervention. I will show that a crucial piece of data has been ignored in this debate, the possibility of extracting the tough adjective without the ...
Martin Salzmann
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Constructions of speech and thought representation
WIREs Cognitive Science, Volume 14, Issue 2, March/April 2023., 2023 A lot of our talk is about talk and thought, and linguists study the ways language has devised to provide access to the contents of speech and thought, real or fictive. (Image: detail of work by Liz Craft, “Mirror Cells” exhibition, 2016, Whitney Museum of American Art.) Abstract A lot of what humans communicate about concerns cognitive contents of ...
Lieven Vandelanotte
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External merge in spec,CP: Complementizers projecting an argument
Syntax, Volume 26, Issue 1, Page 85-105, March 2023., 2023 Abstract The standard assumption that spec,CP is always an A′ position has been questioned for several languages where embedded C heads are involved in agreement and case assignment; however, the idea that no XP can be introduced in spec,CP by external merge has remained unchallenged.
Irina Burukina
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