About the Speaker: Towards a Syntax of Indexicality

Giorgi, Alessandra

ISBN 10: 0199571902 / ISBN 13: 9780199571901

Editore: Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2010

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Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics, no.28. Paperback. Light scuff to spine foot and slight bump to rear lower leading corners. Covers are unmarked, pages are clean, and the text is clear. TH.

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• Titolo: About the Speaker: Towards a Syntax of Indexicality
• Editore: Oxford University Press, Oxford
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0199571902
• ISBN 13: 9780199571901
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: Very Good
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket
• Tipo di libro: Used
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Language & Communication

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Riassunto

This book considers the semantic and syntactic nature of indexicals - linguistic expressions, as in I, you, this, that, yesterday, tomorrow, whose reference shifts from utterance to utterance.There is a long-standing controversy as to whether the semantic reference point is already present as syntactic material or whether it is introduced post-syntactically by semantic rules of interpretation. Alessandra Giorgi resolves this controversy through an empirically grounded exploration of temporal indexicality, arguing that the speaker's temporal location is specified in the syntactic structure. She supports her analysis with theoretical and empirical arguments based on data from English, Italian, Chinese, and Romanian. Professor Giorgi addresses some difficult and longstanding issues in the analysis of temporal phenomena - including the Italian imperfect indicative, the properties of the so-called future-in-the-past, and the properties of Free Indirect Discourse - and shows that her framework can account elegantly for all of them. Carefully argued, succinct, and clearly written her book will appeal widely to semanticists in linguistics and philosophy from graduate level upwards and to linguists interested in the syntax-semantics interface.

Informazioni sull?autore

Alessandra Giorgi is Professor of Linguistics, University of Venice. Her recent publications include articles and chapters on the syntax and semantics of anaphoric expressions. She is the author of The Syntax of Noun Phrases (CUP, 1991) and Tense and Aspect: from Semantics to Morphosyntax (OUP, 1997).