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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 formalised 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.
Read more - Author Lesley (University Of Melbourne) Stirling
- ISBN13 9780521402293
- ISBN10 0521402298
- Pages 354
- Published 1993
- Fecha de publicación 11/03/1993
- Language German, French
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Switch-Reference and Discourse Representation (German, French)
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- Lesley (University Of Melbourne) Stirling
- 9780521402293



