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<br>Fri April 10, 5-6pm CEST
<br>Mon April 13, 4-5pm CEST
<br>Thurs April 16, 4-5pm CEST
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A PDF of the slides and a video presentation are linked below.
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SHORT ABSTRACT: Language contains a variety of different kinds of perspective-sensitive elements, e.g. predicates of personal taste (PPTs, tasty, fun), epithets
(the idiot), logophoric reflexives (e.g. representational NPs, picture of
herself). These refer to the point-of-view of an individual, sometimes
referred to as the perspectival center. We report two experiments on the
interpretation of (i) subjective adjectives (predicates of personal taste,
PPTs) and (ii) logophoric anaphors (reflexives and pronouns) in
Representational NPs (RNPs, e.g. photograph of her/herself), with the aim
of investigating whether the process of identifying the judge of PPTs and
the process of identifying the antecedent of perspective-sensitive anaphora
are connected. We find no evidence that judge identification of PPTs and
the perspectival anchor targeted by logophoric reflexives/pronouns go
hand-in-hand. Instead, our findings suggest that suggests interpretation of
evaluative content (PPT judges) needs to be distinguished from
interpretation of non-evaluative content (referential dependencies), even
when both are perspective-sensitive. (short abstract, see GLOW website for
full abstract)