Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of Edinburgh, 1988).
Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-344) and index.
Machine derived contents note: Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1. Switch-reference phenomena -- 2. Functional extensions of switch-reference systems -- 3. Theoretical conceptions of switch-reference -- 4. Discourse representation theory and unification categorial grammar -- 5. A discourse representation theory account of switch-reference -- 6. Logophoricity -- Notes -- References.
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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 morphosyntactic/semantic, while at the same time taking seriously the range of linguistic and crosslinguistic 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 about the nature of linguistically marked referential relations and the analysis of logophoric phenomena.
Discourse analysis.
Grammar, Comparative and general-- Switch-reference.
Accord (linguistique)
Anafora.
Analyse du discours.
Cohérence (linguistique)
Diaphoricité.
Discourse analysis.
Discourse analysis.
Discourse analysis.
Diskursanalyse
Grammar, Comparative and general-- Switch-reference.
Grammar, Comparative and general-- Switch-reference.