31.3728, Books: A Theory of Indexical Shift: Deal

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Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2020 21:14:21
From: Amy Harris [aeharris at mit.edu]
Subject: A Theory of Indexical Shift: Deal

 


Title: A Theory of Indexical Shift 
Subtitle: Meaning, Grammar, and Crosslinguistic Variation 
Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: MIT Press
	   http://mitpress.mit.edu/
	

Book URL: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/theory-indexical-shift 


Author: Amy Rose Deal

Hardback: ISBN:  9780262044189 Pages: 196 Price: U.S. $ 90.00
Paperback: ISBN:  9780262539210 Pages: 196 Price: U.S. $ 50.00


Abstract:

The phenomenon of indexical shift—whereby indexicals embedded in speech or
attitude reports draw their meaning from an attitude event rather than the
utterance context—has been reported in languages spanning five continents and
at least ten language families. In this book, Amy Rose Deal offers a
comprehensive overview of the semantics and syntax of indexical shift and
develops a constrained typology of the phenomenon across languages—a picture
of variation that is both rich enough to capture the known facts and
restrictive enough to make predictions about currently unknown data points.
Deal draws on studies of indexical shift in a broad range of languages,
focusing especially on Nez Perce, Zazaki, Korean, and Uyghur.

Using new data from fieldwork, Deal presents an in-depth case study of
indexical shift in the Nez Perce language, and uses this evidence to propose a
novel theoretical approach based on the meaning and grammar of shifty
operators. She explores several dimensions of variation related to indexical
shift across and within languages, showing how the cross-linguistic patterns
can be explained (and constrained) within the shifty operator view. Finally,
she contrasts indexical shift with surface-similar phenomena, clarifying the
controls needed to test the constrained typology on new data sets.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Semantics
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): Nez Perce (nez)


Written In: English  (eng)

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