FW: long-distance anaphors in English?

[anne marie devlin]

From: anne_mariedevlin at hotmail.com
To: r.lapolla at latrobe.edu.au
Subject: RE: [FUNKNET] long-distance anaphors in English?
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 10:26:59 +0100





Dear Fritz,
You'll also find many example in Hiberno-English.  There is a corpus available at  www.­ul.­ie/­~lcie/.  that's the Limerick University corpus of Irish English
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> From: r.lapolla at latrobe.edu.au
> Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 12:08:31 +1100
> To: > Subject: Re: [FUNKNET] long-distance anaphors in English?
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> Dear Fritz,
> If you are not limiting your definition of "English" to American English, you will find many examples of "non-bound" reflexives in Australian English. A national corpus of Australian languages is in preparation, but I am not sure what stage it is at currently.
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> Randy
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> On 13/10/2011, at 4:00 AM, <funknet-request at mailman.rice.edu> <funknet-request at mailman.rice.edu> wrote:
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> > Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 02:46:33 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: Frederick J Newmeyer <fjn at u.washington.edu>
> > Subject: [FUNKNET] long-distance anaphors in English?
> > To: Funknet <funknet at mailman.rice.edu>
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> > Hello,
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> > My intuitions tell me that the following sentence would never occur in English discourse, unless the final reflexive is stressed:
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> > * Mary hopes that John will nominate herself.
> > OK Mary hopes that John will nominate HERSELF.
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> > Does anybody know of any corpus-based studies that would uphold (or refute) my intuitions?
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> > Thanks!
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> > --fritz
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> > Frederick J. Newmeyer
> > Chercheur, Institut des Sciences Cognitives, Lyon
> > Professor Emeritus, University of Washington
> > Adjunct Professor, U of British Columbia and Simon Fraser U
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