30.4590, Books: Locality and Logophoricity: Charnavel

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Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2019 17:39:06
From:  Oxford University Press [HumanitiesMarketing at oup.com]
Subject: Locality and Logophoricity: Charnavel

 


Title: Locality and Logophoricity 
Subtitle: A Theory of Exempt Anaphora 
Series Title: Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax  

Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/locality-and-logophoricity-9780190902094?utm_source=linguistlist&utm_medium=listserv&utm_campaign=linguistics 


Author: Isabelle Charnavel

Paperback: ISBN:  9780190902094 Pages: 408 Price: U.S. $ 65.00


Abstract:

Locality and Logophoricity investigates what the distribution of pronominal
expressions in various languages can tell us about the structure of the human
language faculty. The exploration of this question in the past fifty years has
led to the development of a general theory of referential dependency, namely
Binding Theory. This book focuses on Condition A of this theory, which
concerns referentially dependent expressions such as English herself, French
elle-même or Mandarin ziji. Specifically, it tackles an issue of apparent
ambiguity presented by many of these reflexives across languages: in a large
number of unrelated languages, we observe that the same reflexive form must
obey either syntactic constraints or discourse constraints related to
perspective.

The specific aim of the book is to describe and explain this widespread dual
behavior of reflexives. A detailed empirical investigation based mainly on
systematically collected French, English, Icelandic, Mandarin, and Korean data
leads the author to propose a unified solution to this issue. This proposal
has consequences both for Binding Theory and for the theory of logophoricity,
which addresses the impact of perspective on linguistic systems.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Morphology
                     Syntax


Written In: English  (eng)

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