Contrast, Discourse Prominence, and Intensification, with Special Reference to Locally Free Reflexives in British English  

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Baker, C.L.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language (ada di JSTOR) vol. 71 no. 1 (1995), page 63-101.
Fulltext: Vol. 71, No. 1, pp. 63-101.pdf (825.97KB)

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Locally free reflexives in British English are best analyzed as intensified nonnomina- tive pronouns, subject to two conditions that regulate English intensive NPs generally: (a) a contrastiveness requirement and (b) a requirement that the character being referred to be more important or more central than other characters included in the contrast set. The latter 'discourse prominence' requirement is similar to the one that regulates proximate marking in the Algonquian languages. The extent to which discourse promi- nence marking can mimic locality marking may explain historical conversions of inten- sives to anaphors, as well as certain anomalies in child language. This frequent formal overlapping makes it necessary to take marking for discourse prominence into account whenever locality-marking is under investigation.*

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