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Contact and Language Change: Using the Present to Explain the Past1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 409-427, November 2025.Abstract Although we may know the outcome of language changes that could have resulted from language contact in the past, we are unlikely to know how and why these changes occurred unless we also know about the individual speakers who came into contact and the nature of their interactions—information that all too often is impossible to uncover.
Jenny Cheshire
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Logophoricity and Mandarin Exempt Reflexives [PDF]
, 2020 Anaphors in many languages do not obey the \u27canonical\u27 Binding Condition A (Chomsky 1986), such as Icelandic \u27sig\u27 and Mandarin \u27ziji\u27. Two main competing approaches have been proposed to capture binding beyond the local domain: (i) The
Liu, Yingtong
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Satisfying the composite probe on the Topic head in Mandarin Chinese
Studia Linguistica, Volume 79, Issue 1, Page 91-140, April 2025.Abstract This paper investigates two puzzles concerning gapped topicalization in Chinese: (i) DPs are restricted from undergoing multiple gapped topicalization via Agree and movement, while prepositional phrases do not face this limitation; (ii) DP gapped topicalization, typically viewed as an instance of Ā‐movement, is able to feed anaphoric binding ...
C.‐T. Tim Chou
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The syntax of Greek split reciprocals
Syntax, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 713-746, December 2024.Abstract We provide the first detailed description and analysis of the syntax of the understudied Greek split reciprocal reconstruction. As in other languages, the reciprocal appears to be bipartite consisting of a quantificational distributor (‘the one’) and a reciprocator (‘the other’).
Lefteris Paparounas, Martin Salzmann
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Anaphoricity and Logophoricity [PDF]
, 2000 There are two approaches to an anaphor. One approach is that an anaphor is used either as an anaphor or a logophor according to the context. The other is that an anaphor is separated from a logophor.
Choi, Ki-Sook
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Noncanonical Obligatory Control
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 18, Issue 3, May/June 2024.Abstract Intensive research on Obligatory Control (OC) in the past 2 decades has revealed a rich crosslinguistic terrain of deviations from the classical format. Five types of noncanonical OC are surveyed here: Finite control, controlled overt pronouns, partial control, proxy control and crossed control.
Idan Landau
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ATTITUDES DE SE AND LOGOPHORICITY
, 2018 This dissertation investigates two related notions that represent attitudes and perspectives, de se attitudes and the notion of logophoricity, based on the case study of the long-distance reflexive caki in Korean, which specifically encodes attitudes ...
Park, Yangsook
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, 2015 Eastern Vidzeme is an important, hitherto neglected, area for the study of logophoricity in the Circum-Baltic languages. This paper shows, on the one hand, that logophoricity in Latvian is not restricted to Latgalian dialects, but is almost fully ...
Wälchli, Bernhard
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Variation in Gizey third-person subjects and the emergence of antilogophoricity
LinguisticsThis paper is concerned with how grammatical functions emerge in natural languages. Specifically, it provides insights into the emergence of antilogophoricity, viz., the special coding of participants other than those whose speech or thoughts are being ...
Guitang Guillaume
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Logophoric pronouns outside speech and attitude reports in Wan
, 2023 International audienceThis study aims to illustrate the complex nature of logophoricity by exploring the use of logophoric pronouns outside speech and attitude reports in a corpus of Wan, a Mande language spoken in Côte d’Ivoire. Logophoricity in Wan can
Nikitina, Tatiana
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