Emphatic reflexives as part-structure modifiers

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Abstract

The standard analysis of emphatic reflexives assumes that they are focused expressions of identity in all their uses (e.g. Gast 2006). On the basis of semantic and prosodic data, I argue that exclusive adverbial emphatic reflexives in Dutch and English should instead be analyzed as expressions excluding certain participants from the modified event (“P-exclusives”). The proposed analysis is based on Moltmann’s (2004) account of the part-structure modifier ‘alone’, and avoids a number of problems that the standard analysis has when applied to these data.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)176-191
JournalLinguistics in the Netherlands
Volume36
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Nov 2019

Keywords

  • agentivity
  • emphatic reflexives
  • focus
  • modification and part-structure modifiers

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