Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 00:13:14 -0700
From: Robert May <RMAY@uci.edu>
Subject: Question for Broadwell from May
To: linconf@tamvm1.tamu.edu
Message-Id: <3269D10A.72F9@uci.edu>
I have a perhaps somewhat speculative question. One interesting part of
your proposal is that switch reference involves a complentarity between
anaphors and disjoint anaphors. Might this be a reflection of a more
general distinction between emphatics and "counter-emphatics," as
displayed in the English (i) and (ii):
(i) John said that he himself left
(ii) John said that someone other than himself left
As Fiengo and I have observed, the locution "someone other than himself"
has the properties normally associated with disjoint anaphors. If these
cases are comparable, then perhaps the switch reference effects derive
from more general anaphoric principles.
-Robert May