Projects per year
Abstract
In this introduction, we set out the central themes of the special issue. It concentrates on imperfect function-form mappings, and discusses several cases in which specific perspectival meanings are not fully predictable on the basis of a perspectivizing grammatical construction alone. We distinguish two kinds of form-function mismatches: (1) perspective-persistent phenomena, i.e. grammatically signaled deictic and/or cognitive perspective shifts which are not realized in interpretation, and (2) irregular perspective shifts, which involve either grammatically un(der)specified shifts or grammatically signaled shifts that are interpreted as mixing multiple sources of deictic and/or cognitive perspective ('multiple-perspective constructions'). We briefly discuss and contextualize each of the contributions, and highlight their central findings.
Original language | English |
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Journal | Pragmatics |
Volume | 29 |
Issue number | 2 |
Pages (from-to) | 155-169 |
Number of pages | 15 |
ISSN | 1018-2101 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 24 Apr 2019 |
MoE publication type | B1 Journal article |
Fields of Science
- 6121 Languages
- form-function mismatch
- grammatical underspecification
- irregular perspective shifts
- multiple-perspective construction
- perspective persistence
Projects
- 2 Finished
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Language emerging from human sociality: the case of speech representation
Spronck, S. & Casartelli, D. E.
01/01/2019 → 31/12/2022
Project: University of Helsinki Three-Year Research Project
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Helsinki University Humanities Programme: Indigenous Languages
01/11/2017 → 31/10/2020
Project: Research project