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Aspects of logophoricity (Sells., 1987)

Citation

Sells, P. (1987). Aspects of logophoricity. Linguistic inquiry, 18(3), 445-479.

My thoughts

Summary

• antecedent of logophoric pronoun must be the one
  • whose speech, thoughts, feelings or general state of consciensness are reported
  • logophoric pronouns = predicates of communicaiton and mental experience
• discrouse representaiton strcutures framework (Hans Kamp, 1981)
  • verbs of propositional attitude
  • source = the source of reporter
  • self = the pronoun with repect to whose consciousness
  • point of view = PIVOT = person from whose point of view the report is made

• logophoric pronouns are also sometimws possible with verbs of mental state or attitude

• the verb say determines that its subject may be the antecedent for the logophoric pronoun

• Celement suggests that the source of the communicaiton is relevant for determine logophoricity

• the logophoric pronoun in Ewe may appear niether in a relative clause or in the complement ot a perception verb

• there are certain differences between verbs of saying and psychological predicates, through which the speaker reportes on the mental state of some sentence-internal referent

The lexical representation of say will contrast with that of a psych-verb like distress, which is a predicate through which the external speaker reports the state of mind of some interal protagonist