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Noncanonical Obligatory Control

open access: yesLanguage 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
wiley   +1 more source

Variation in Gizey third-person subjects and the emergence of antilogophoricity

open access: yesLinguistics
This 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
doaj   +1 more source

Logophoricity in Ibibio

open access: yes, 2019
This paper presents a description and analysis of logophoric pronouns in Ibibio. I show that Ibibio logophors, although they behave in most respects like typical logophoric pronouns in West African languages, obey Shift Together like shifted indexicals.
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Antipresuppositions, logophors and shifted indexicality

open access: yesProceedings of the Amsterdam Colloquium, 2022
Some languages can ‘shift’ indexicals, such as I and you, and use them anaphorically to refer to participants of the speech event being reported (Schlenker 2003, Deal 2020); other languages use dedicated ‘logophoric’ pronouns in the same fashion. A fact about logophoric languages is that, in speech reports, the use of a 3rd person form to refer to the ...
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Logophoricity in Eastern Vidzeme

open access: yesBaltic Linguistics, 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 consistent in the writings of the novelist Andrievs Niedra (1871–1942) originating from Tirza, and on the ...
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Aspects of logophoric marking

open access: yesling, 1994
Les pronoms logophoriques font reference a la personne dont les mots, les pensees, la connaissance ou les emotions sont reportes dans une extension du discours, le domaine logophorique. Les langues purement logophoriques sont celles danas lesquelles ces pronoms ont uniquement un usage logophorique (pas d'usage reflexif ou emphatique).
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Logophoric strategy in San-Maka

open access: yesLanguage in Africa, 2020
The article deals with strategies of coding the participants of communication in reporting dicours in San-Maka (Eastern Mande < Mande < Niger-Congo). San-Maka demonstrates an interesting case wherein 3rd person Sg and Pl pronouns, combined with an emphatic marker sɛ́, are used in a logophoric function.
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Logophoric pronouns and point of view

open access: yesLinguistics, 1997
Logophoric pronouns are pronouns used to refer to the person whose words, thoughts, or emotions are being represented. In addition to reflexives that can be used logophorically (indirect reflexives), some languages have morphologically distinct logophoric pronouns.
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