19.1535, Qs: Languages That Use Copies as Anaphors?

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Subject: 19.1535, Qs: Languages That Use Copies as Anaphors?

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Date: 08-May-2008
From: Felicia Lee < felicia at ucla.edu >
Subject: Languages That Use Copies as Anaphors?

 

	
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Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 15:32:31
From: Felicia Lee [felicia at ucla.edu]
Subject: Languages That Use Copies as Anaphors?
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Hello,

I have been working on a language (one of the Zapotec languages of Mexico)
that commonly expresses both local and nonlocal binding relations with
copies of the bound element: in this language, one can say (without any
logophoric or guise-changing reading) things like ''The priest killed the
priest'' meaning ''the priest killed himself''.  Moreover, the bound copy
receives a bound variable reading: ''the priest killed the priest and so
did the teacher'' means ''the teacher also killed himself''. 

I am trying to compile an inventory of other languages that show this bound
copy pattern; so far, the only ones I know of are Thai, Hmong, and Vietnamese.

If any of you know of other languages that show this pattern, please let me
know. I will report back to the group with a summary of my results. Thanks!

Felicia Lee 

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax






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