Abstract:Imposters, seemingly third person nouns with speech act participant reference, have been varyingly analyzed as being licensed through an elaborated DP syntax (Collins and Postal. 2008. Imposters. Manuscript. http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/000640 (accessed 12 May 2017), Collins and Postal. 2012. Imposters: A study of pronominal agreement. Cambridge: MIT Press) or through lexical specification (Kaufman 2014. The syntax of Indonesian imposters. In Chris Collins (ed.), Cross-linguistic studies of imposters and prono… Show more
“…A crucial argument of the paper is that the generic 2SG becomes BNE through the loss of person specification. I argue, following (Sigurðsson 2010;Adams & Conners 2020), that nominal expressions can have specified or underspecified person.…”
“…A crucial argument of the paper is that the generic 2SG becomes BNE through the loss of person specification. I argue, following (Sigurðsson 2010;Adams & Conners 2020), that nominal expressions can have specified or underspecified person.…”
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