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Perspective persistence and irregular perspective shift: mismatches in form-function pairings KU Leuven
Irregular Perspective Shifts and Perspective Persistence, Discourse-oriented and Theoretical Approaches KU Leuven
© John Benjamins Publishing Company. 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 ...
Solega defenestration: Underspecified perspective shift in an unwritten Dravidian language KU Leuven
Based on original fieldwork, this paper discusses reported speech and thought constructions in Solega (Dravidian). Following McGregor (1994) we claim that reported speech can only be comprehensively characterised if it is identified as a syntactic construction in its own right, a construction we label a framing or ‘frame-in’ construction. In natural discourse, elements of the frame-in construction, particularly clauses referring to the reporting ...
Defenestration: deconstructing the frame-in relation in Ungarinyin KU Leuven
The Australian Aboriginal language Ungarinyin (Worrorran) has one single complex-clause construction for expressing reported speech (‘say’), that can also signal reported thought (‘think’) and attribute intentions (‘want’). By demonstrating which formal and functional distinctions are essential to the interpretation of this Ungarinyin construction, the present paper aims to contribute to understanding the exact nature of the syntactic relation ...