Locality and Logophoricity investigates what the distribution of pronominal expressions in various languages can tell us about the structure of the human language faculty. The exploration of this question in the past fifty years has led to the development of a general theory of referential dependency, namely Binding Theory. This book focuses on Condition A of this theory, which concerns referentially dependent expressions such as English herself, French elle-même or Mandarin ziji. Specifically, it tackles an issue of apparent ambiguity presented by many of these reflexives across languages: in a large number of unrelated languages, we observe that the same reflexive form must obey either syntactic constraints or discourse constraints related to perspective. The specific aim of the book is to describe and explain this widespread dual behavior of reflexives. A detailed empirical investigation based mainly on systematically collected French, English, Icelandic, Mandarin, and Korean data leads the author to propose a unified solution to this issue. This proposal has consequences both for Binding Theory and for the theory of logophoricity, which addresses the impact of perspective on linguistic systems.
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In many languages, reflexives like English herself exhibit a puzzling dual behavior: they must either obey structural constraints or perspective-related discourse constraints. Based on detailed examination of crosslinguistic data, this book proposes a unified solution to this syntax-semantics issue, which has consequences for the theories of binding and logophoricity.
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Acknowledgments CHAPTER 1 - Introduction: The issue of exempt anaphora CHAPTER 2 - How to identify exempt anaphors CHAPTER 3 - The logophoric properties of exempt anaphors CHAPTER 4 - The logophoric A-binder hypothesis CHAPTER 5 - Reducing long distance binding to logophoric exemption Conclusion References
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Selling point: Presents for the first time an in-depth and crosslinguistic discussion of instances of reflexives that seem to challenge classical Binding Theory Selling point: Re-evaluates two important topics of linguistic theory: Condition A of Binding Theory, and logophoricity Selling point: Based on a rigorous methodology and a meticulous examination of crosslinguistic data, most of which have been experimentally collected
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Isabelle Charnavel is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Harvard University. Her primary research interests focus on the interface between theoretical syntax and semantics.
Selling point: Presents for the first time an in-depth and crosslinguistic discussion of instances of reflexives that seem to challenge classical Binding Theory Selling point: Re-evaluates two important topics of linguistic theory: Condition A of Binding Theory, and logophoricity Selling point: Based on a rigorous methodology and a meticulous examination of crosslinguistic data, most of which have been experimentally collected
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780190902094
Publisert
2020
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press Inc
Vekt
570 gr
Høyde
230 mm
Bredde
154 mm
Dybde
23 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
408

Biographical note

Isabelle Charnavel is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Harvard University. Her primary research interests focus on the interface between theoretical syntax and semantics.