ON-LINE CONFERENCE GLOSSARY OF TERMS FOR G. A. BROADWELL:

A-position n. In GB, an A-position is one internal to S (or IP). It is a position to which a theta-role may be assigned and includes Subject, Object, and Indirect object. [TDS]

A'-position (read "A bar position") n. In GB, an A'-position is one that is external to S (or IP) in the sense that it is not usually associated with a theta-role (i.e. it is not a canonical position like subject, object, or indirect object. The A'-positions include COMP and adjoined positions. [TDS]

Choctaw North American Indian language of the Muskogean family, which includes Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, Seminole. Katzner (1977), The Languages of the World, Routledge, London and New York.

Command v. A structural relation between nodes in a phrase marker. (i) The command relation, as a specific technical term, originated with Langacker (1969) wherein it is defined as follows: X commands Y iff neither node dominates the other and the first S-node that dominates X also dominates Y. (ii) The term "command" is sometimes used in a more general sense to cover a variety of structural relations including k-command, c-command, m-command; these differ in which dominating node is considered most relevant. For further details, see Barker and Pullum (1990), "A theory of command relations," Linguistics and Philosophy, 13: 1-34. [TDS]

Logophoricity n. The following statement on logophoricity is taken from the influential work of Peter Sells (1987), "Aspects of Logophoricity," Linguistic Inquiry, Volume 18, Number 3, 445-479; p. 445.

"The notion of logophoricity was introduced in studies of African languages in which a morphologically differentiated "logophoric" pronoun has a distribution distinct from that of other pronouns (Hagege (1974), Clements (1975)). Roughly, the antecedent of the logophoric pronoun must be the one "whose speech, thoughts, feelings, or general state of consciouness are reported" (Clements (1975), 141); hence, logophoric pronouns appear predominantly within sentential arguments of predicates of communication and mental experience. More recently, the notion of logophoricity has been used in acounts of anaphora with non-clause-bounded reflexive pronouns, like those found in Japanese and certain Scandinavian languages."

Switch reference n. A grammatical device found in certain languages which serves to track a particular grammatical or semantic relation across clauses and to monitor whether the participants bearing that relation are the same or different. Such a system encodes simultaneously the relative discourse reference of two NPs in consecutive clauses and the grammatical relations of those NPs. Switch reference is particularly common in North American languages. [This statement from Trask, R. L. (1993), A Dictionary of Grammatical Terms in Linguistics, Routledge, London and New York.]