Logico-Linguistic Papers

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ID5829348
AutoresP F Strawson, Michael Durrant (0000-0001-7927-5581)
Año1972
Volumen13
Número1
Páginas32-34
Fecha de publicación1972-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaPhilosophical Books (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0031-8051 • E-ISSN: 1468-0149
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1468-0149.1972.tb03782.x
OpenAlexW2129986121
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas64
Referencias citadas11

This paper presents novel data regarding the logophoric pronoun in Ewe.We show that, contrary to what had been assumed in the absence of the necessary fieldwork, Ewe logophors are not obligatorily interpreted de se.We discuss the prima facie rather surprising nature of this discovery given the assumptions that de se construals arise via binding of the pronoun by an abstraction operator in the left periphery of the clausal complement of an attitude predicate, and that logophors are elements that are obligatorily bound by such abstractors.We show that this approach can be reconciled with these facts given the additional assumption that elements that are 'de se' bound can interact with the concept generator variables posited by Percus and Sauerland (Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 7, 2003a; Proceedings of NELS 33, 2003b) to derive de re interpretations of embedded nominals.The proposed set-up has consequences for our understanding of puzzles raised by Heim and Sharvit concerning binding-theoretic effects with de re elements, and for the derivation of the obligatorily de se interpretation of controlled PRO

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