Type of Publication: | Contribution to a conference collection |
Publication status: | Published |
URI (citable link): | http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:352-2-1iffiwmwsp1ce3 |
Author: | Koev, Todor |
Year of publication: | 2014 |
Conference: | Sinn und Bedeutung 18, Sep 11, 2013 - Sep 13, 2013, Vitoria-Gasteiz |
Published in: | Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 18 / Etxeberria, Urtzi et al. (ed.). - Konstanz : University of Konstanz, 2014. - pp. 217-234. - eISSN 2629-6055 |
URL of original publication: | https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/sub/index.php/sub/article/view/314, Last access on Oct 28, 2020 |
Summary: |
This paper solves two puzzles about the interpretation of appositive constructions in English: (i) it explains why appositives robustly PROJECT even though they are interpreted in situ with respect to order-dependent phenomena such as discourse anaphora; (ii) it analyzes certain non-projective readings of appositives as instances of PERSPECTIVE SHIFT, a phenomenon that bears striking similarities with the phenomenon of shifted indexical pronouns. To solve the first puzzle, I assume that appositives are interpreted in surface position but adopt a less standard mechanism of operator scope according to which operators can bind lexical predicates or other operators. Since appositives form ForcePs and Force operators cannot be bound, it follows that appositives project even when placed in the syntactic scope of a higher operator. With respect to the second puzzle, I argue that shifted appositives are evaluated with respect to a secondary speech context introduced by a verb of saying or inferred from the larger discourse. Since the two mechanisms of projection and perspective shift are independent, they can be given a uniform analysis.
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Subject (DDC): | 400 Philology, Linguistics |
Keywords: | appositives, projection, perspective shift, update semantics |
Link to License: | Attribution 4.0 International |
KOEV, Todor, 2014. Two puzzles about appositives : Projection and perspective shift. Sinn und Bedeutung 18. Vitoria-Gasteiz, Sep 11, 2013 - Sep 13, 2013. In: ETXEBERRIA, Urtzi, ed. and others. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 18. Konstanz:University of Konstanz, pp. 217-234. eISSN 2629-6055
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