Query Details
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Languages That Use Copies as Anaphors?
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| Author: | Felicia Lee | |
| Submitter Email: | click here to access email | |
| Linguistic LingField(s): |
Syntax
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| Query: |
Hello,
I have been working on a language (one of the Zapotec languages of Mexico) that commonly expresses both local and nonlocal binding relations with copies of the bound element: in this language, one can say (without any logophoric or guise-changing reading) things like ''The priest killed the priest'' meaning ''the priest killed himself''. Moreover, the bound copy receives a bound variable reading: ''the priest killed the priest and so did the teacher'' means ''the teacher also killed himself''. I am trying to compile an inventory of other languages that show this bound copy pattern; so far, the only ones I know of are Thai, Hmong, and Vietnamese. If any of you know of other languages that show this pattern, please let me know. I will report back to the group with a summary of my results. Thanks! Felicia Lee |
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| LL Issue: | 19.1535 | |
| Date posted: | 10-May-2008 | |
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