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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      December 2009
      March 1993
      ISBN:
      9780511597886
      9780521402293
      9780521023436
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511597886
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.674kg, 372 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.564kg, 372 Pages
      • Subjects:
      English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Language and Linguistics, Discourse Analysis
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Linguistics (63)
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    Subjects:
    English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Language and Linguistics, Discourse Analysis
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Linguistics (63)
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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 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. Switch-reference's indication of agreement or disagreement between clauses (or larger discourse units) is shown to function along various parameters contributing to discourse continuity: their major protagonists, spatial and temporal location, and their status as describing actual or non-actual situations. The arguments bear also on general debates around the nature of linguistically marked referential relations and the analysis of logophoric phenomena.

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