Alessandra Giorgi

About the Speaker

Towards a Syntax of Indexicality

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Produktbeschreibung

Alessandra Giorgi develops an important and original perspective on the relation between a sentence and its extra-sententialcontext, namely that the speaker's temporal location is specified in the syntactic structure. Carefully argued and clearly written her book will appeal widely to semanticists in linguistics and philosophy.

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Alessandra Giorgi considers the semantic and syntactic nature of indexicals: linguistic expressions whose reference shifts from utterance to utterance.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 377g
• ISBN-13: 9780199571901
• ISBN-10: 0199571902
• Artikelnr.: 27840043

Autorenporträt

Alessandra Giorgi is Professor of Linguistics, University of Venice. Her recent publications include articles and chapters on the syntax and semantics of anaphoric expressions. She is the author of The Syntax of Noun Phrases (CUP, 1991) and Tense and Aspect: from Semantics to Morphosyntax (OUP, 1997).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: The speaker's projection
2: Can we ever see the speaker's coordinates in the C-layer?
3: Is the speaker there? An analysis of some anomalous contexts
4: Depending on the future: the speaker changes her perspective
5: When somebody else is speaking: Free Indirect Discourse
Concluding Remarks
References
Index