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Logophoricity: an empirical-semantic assessment of yè in ewe

, 2023
This dissertation investigates a special class of anaphoric form, yè, in Ewe known as the logophoric pronoun. This research makes a number of novel observations.
Abigail Anne Bimpeh
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

De se marking, logophoricity, and ziji [PDF]

, 2018
This chapter addresses the assumed connection between de se attitude ascription and logophoricity in the case of Chinese ziji. It is widely believed that logophors are among the paradigm cases of de se marking, and that long-distance ziji is logophoric ...
Hsiang-Yun Chen
semanticscholar   +5 more sources

Dogon pronominal systems their nature and evolution

Studies in African Linguistics, 1994
The Dogon language family has received little attention in the linguistics literature to date. In this paper we examine the binding properties of the pronominal systems of three Dogon languages, Donno S:>, T:>r:> S:>, and Togo Ka.
Cristopher Culy, Kungarma Kodio
doaj   +3 more sources

Logophoricity and shifts of perspective

, 2020
This study presents a typology of existing approaches to logophoricity and discusses problems the different approaches face. It addresses, in particular, perspective-based accounts describing constructions with logophoric pronouns in terms of their ...
Tatiana Nikitina
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The syntax of orientation shifting: Evidence from English high adverbs [PDF]

, 2014
This paper reviews new data supporting the inclusion of a Speech Act Phrase in the left periphery. Illocutionary and evidential adverbs in English shift orientation from speakers in declarative sentences to addressees in yes-no interrogative sentences ...
Woods, Rebecca
core   +3 more sources

Logophoricity and emphatic determiners in Basque

Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 1991
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Joseba Abaitua
doaj   +1 more source

Point of View and Zibun: Toward a Unified Theory of the Japanese Reflexive

Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1995
The predominant view of the binding facts of the Japanese reflexive zibun is that there are two types of uses; one is as a reflexive which is to be bound by the clause-mate subject, and the other one is as the so-called "logophoric" pronoun. Accordingly,
Yabushita, Katsuhiko
doaj   +1 more source

The function of pronominal expressions in Puxian [PDF]

, 2010
Puxian, a Min dialect of China, has many significant linguistic features. Based on a corpus of spoken data, this thesis sets out to examine aspects of the grammar of pronominal expressions in Puxian, focusing especially on three prominent issues in the ...
Siewierska, Anna, Hollmann, Willem, Wu, Jianming   +2 more
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Where empathy goes untranslated: the Chinese reflexive Ziji and the recoding of perspective in two complete English translations of Hong Lou Meng

Frontiers in Psychology
The Mandarin reflexive ziji is a polyfunctional anaphor which, in logophoric uses, can also contribute to empathy and internal perspective. English himself/herself and his/her own, by contrast, are locally constrained and do not provide a general ...
Hongyu Zhu
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African Lambdas I: Formal Semantics of African Languages—The Nominal Domain

Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 20, Issue 1, January/February 2026.
ABSTRACT The formal semantic analysis of African languages is still a young subfield within theoretical linguistics. Starting with general overviews of the quantifier systems of individual African languages around two decades ago, there now exists a substantial body of fieldwork‐based and autochthonous formal semantic research conducted by both African
Malte Zimmermann
wiley   +1 more source