Squibs by Diego Gabriel Krivochen
This short paper deals with the syntactic and semantic properties of a specific kind of anaphoric... more This short paper deals with the syntactic and semantic properties of a specific kind of anaphoric device (AD) in English, instantiated by Prn+SELF lexical items (himself/herself/itself…; 'SELF' henceforth) which do not seem to behave like anaphors in the sense of Binding Theory either syntactically or semantically. These devices have received the name of intensives in the grammatical literature (Leskosky, 1972; Siemund, 2000, among many others). We will look at the syntactic behaviour of so-called intensives in different syntactic contexts, and refine the classification of these AD taking into consideration (a) how each type of intensive is derived, (b) the kinds of transformational rules that can affect them, and (c) their meaning.
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(2018) On Non-Progressive 'being'
Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique, 2018
A squib about a syntactic copying transformation first formulated by Andy Rogers in the early '70... more A squib about a syntactic copying transformation first formulated by Andy Rogers in the early '70s, called 'Richard'.
This squib examines three sets of previously unexplained uses of the English progressive. We show... more This squib examines three sets of previously unexplained uses of the English progressive. We show how apparently problematic implications of NP's and AP's following "being" point to a semantic analysis where such NP's and AP's denote a property or property set that holds during a proper subinterval of the interval pertaining to the sentence as a whole; given such a semantic analysis, some apparently problematic implications can then be seen as Gricean conversational implicatures. We also look at two types of case where the progressive appears to be used with a stative VP and propose that these VP's denote achievements that are derived from cognate states by a general rule.
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Squibs by Diego Gabriel Krivochen
v. 1.0.2: Numeration fixed. Also, minor corrections.