Switch-reference and discourse representation / Lesley Stirling.
"In central cases of switch-reference, a marker on the verb of one clause is used to indicate whether its subject has the same or different reference from the subject of an adjacent, syntactically-related clause. In central cases of logophoricity, a special pronoun form is used within a reporte...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge [England] ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1993.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in linguistics ;
63. |
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| Online Access: | Cambridge Books on Core Sample text |
| Summary: | "In central cases of switch-reference, a marker on the verb of one clause is used to indicate whether its subject has the same or different reference from the subject of an adjacent, syntactically-related clause. In central cases of logophoricity, a special pronoun form is used within a reported speech context to indicate coherence with the source of reported speech. Lesley Stirling argues that these types of anaphoric linkage across clause boundaries cannot be adequately accounted for by Binding Theory. Her detailed examination of the two phenomena, including a case study of the Papuan language Amele, proposes an account for them which is formalized in Discourse Representation Theory, and explores how far it is possible for such an account to be compositional morpho-syntactic/semantic, while at the same time taking seriously the range of linguistic and cross-linguistic data to be explained."--Publisher description. |
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| Item Description: | Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of Edinburgh, 1988). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 354 pages). |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511597886 9780511597886 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/CBO9780511597886 |