Current/past research:
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de se/de re/indexicals/logophors
temporal modifiers and presupposition
prosody/semantics/syntax interface(s)
exceptive constructions
emphatic reflexives
relative clauses/domain restrictions/functional NPs
I’ve defended my Major Paper, which offered a full syntax, semantics and pragmatics for the adnominal intensifying -self form in English. The main argument in the paper was to show how it may be preferable to abandon focus semantics altogether in accounting for the presuppositional facts about adnominal ERs. If you’d like a copy you can e-mail me and I’ll send you the latest draft.
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