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Self reflexives and intensifiers| title | Self reflexives and intensifiers |
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| start_date | 2022/10/12 |
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| schedule | 10h30-13h - Heure de Tucson |
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| online | yes |
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| visio | https://arizona.zoom.us/j/83059854210 |
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| location_info | En ligne |
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| summary | English forms like ‘herself’ are used both to express reflexive relations as in ‘Mary described herself’ and to express intensification as in ‘Mary herself described it’ or ‘Mary described it herself’, the latter two having different meanings.
Such usages for a single form of this shape is cross-linguistically extremely widespread and compelling cases of evolution from one usage (as intensifier) to others (reflexive) are well documented. This suggests that, somehow, a unique item ‘herself’ is organically capable of all such usages, with their differing meanings.
We put forth a new hypothesis about the atomic properties of ‘self’ deriving such an organic connection between all usages of these forms, including compounds such as ‘self taught’ or ‘self criticism’, their meanings and their distributional constraints (including condition A of the binding theory). The success of this proposal requires modifying our understanding of A-movement dependencies, making them far more pervasive than currently assumed, but in a manner that is consistent with current central theoretical assumptions. |
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| responsibles | Piatelli-Palmarini, Chomsky, Bever |
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| submitted | published | | 2022/09/09 12:28 UTC |
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