29. Communicative reference with pronouns

Farmer, Ann; Harnish, Robert M.

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“…This hypothesis is rooted in semantic reformulations of Principle B of the Binding Theory ("a pronoun is free in its governing category"), in particular that of Reinhart and Reuland (1993) (see also Partee and Bach (1984), Sells (1991), Kiparsky (2002), and the pragmatic Disjoint Reference Presumption of Farmer and Harnish (1987) and Levinson (2000)). …”

Section: The Distinctness Conditionmentioning

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The Ingredients of Reciprocity in Cuzco Quechua

Faller

2007

Journal of Semantics

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In Cuzco Quechua reciprocity is marked by means of two verbal suffixes, one of which is a marker of reflexivity, the other of which is a marker of pluractionality. The paper develops an analysis that composes reciprocity from these more basic notions. Two further ingredients that are needed will be argued to derive from independent principles: universal quantification over parts of the reciprocal plural agent derives from plural predication, as has been argued by other researchers for English reciprocity; distinctness of the participants in the reciprocal subevents derives from a semantic version of Condition B. This way of composing reciprocity is not universal, other languages have dedicated reciprocal markers or make other reciprocal ingredients overt. The compositional derivation of reciprocity is therefore a clear candidate for cross-linguistic semantic variation.

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Section: The Distinctness Conditionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Ingredients of Reciprocity in Cuzco Quechua

Faller

2007

Journal of Semantics

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“…For the sake of simplicity, I attempt to base the reading of ‗ziji' as bound anaphor on the ‗B-first' pragmatic analysis. 7 Levinson (1991, following in the spirit of proposals by Farmer and Harnish (1987) and Huang (1987), develops the ‗B-first' account (as an alternative to the earlier ‗A-first' account) within the neo-Gricean pragmatic framework. In this analysis the pattern predicted by Condition B is taken to be the basic pattern, out of which the patterns regulated by Conditions A and C will then be derived ‗for free' by the systematic interaction of neo-Gricean principles of inferential enrichment, viz.…”

Section: A Bound Anaphoramentioning

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“…This is illustrated by the examples in (10). (10) (11), to show that the blocking effect is at least partly pragmatic in nature and a long-range binding interpretation can be occasionally be forced even if there is an intervening firstor second-person pronoun.…”

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A Pragmatic Account of Anaphora: The Cases of the Bare Reflexive in Chinese*

Liu¹

2010

JLTR

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Abstract-Most, if not all, of the existing research on anaphoric constructions containing the bare reflexive 'ziji' in Chinese has been done on a formalist basis and some found in the literature has as it were not given a cogent explanation. The present article, largely based on some discourse and/or pragmatic principles and following a close examination of data drawn from various texts, describes and analyzes its anaphoric uses in two domains: the local and the long-range. The findings suggest that in either case, this bare or simplex reflexive occurs, anaphorically, much more frequently than an alternate complex reflexive or a plain pronoun, which results from the fact that it serves a twofold role, as an alternative to a complex reflexive, on one hand, to minimalize communicative reference and to a pronoun, on the other, to save time for discourse understanding. Such anaphora facts are regulated by a neo-Gricean-like pragmatic principle re the uses of third-person pronouns in Chinese: (a) where the grammar permits the occurrence of both a bare and a complex reflexive, the speaker intending locally bound anaphora tends to use the bare to produce the minimal linguistic information enough to achieve the communicational ends, unless motivated otherwise; (b) where the context permits the occurrence of both a bare reflexive and a pronoun, the speaker intending long-range coreference tends to use the bare reflexive to ease discourse interpretation, unless prevented doing so by other considerations.Index Terms-reflexive, locally bound anaphora, long-range anaphora, pragmatic principle

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“…But it need not be -and this is one of the attractions of the B-first account -for the core pattern could itself be pragmatically motivated. Farmer and Harnish (1987), for example, have advanced this as the basic datum for pronominal anaphora: they propose a pragmatic 'Disjoint Reference Presumption', namely that 'the arguments of a predicate are intended to be disjoint, unless marked otherwise ' (1987: 557). The origin of such a pragmatic presumption is left unclear on their account, but we may perhaps be able to relate it to our Generalized Conversational Implicatures framework.…”

Section: The 'B-first' Account: Pragmatic Reduction Of Bindingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, Ann Farmer and Robert Harnish impressed me with the possibilities in 1985 (see Farmer & Harnish, 1987) and Yan Huang's investigations of 107 languages -no grammatical account and no A-first kind of pragmatic account seems possible at all. But equally, a B-first account clearly fails where there are grammaticalized Anaphors; 2 in those languages, an A-first account seems essential.…”

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Pragmatic reduction of the Binding Conditions revisited

Levinson

1991

J. Ling.

147

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In an earlier article (Levinson, 1987b), I raised the possibility that a Gricean theory of implicature might provide a systematic partial reduction of the Binding Conditions; the briefest of outlines is given in Section 2.1 below but the argumentation will be found in the earlier article. In this article I want, first, to show how that account might be further justified and extended, but then to introduce a radical alternative. This alternative uses the same pragmatic framework, but gives an account better adjusted to some languages. Finally, I shall attempt to show that both accounts can be combined by taking a diachronic perspective. The attraction of the combined account is that, suddenly, many facts about long-range reflexives and their associated logophoricity fall into place

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29. Communicative reference with pronouns

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The Ingredients of Reciprocity in Cuzco Quechua

The Ingredients of Reciprocity in Cuzco Quechua

A Pragmatic Account of Anaphora: The Cases of the Bare Reflexive in Chinese*

Pragmatic reduction of the Binding Conditions revisited

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