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 language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 176-191 |
Journal | Linguistics in the Netherlands |
Volume | 36 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Nov 2019 |
Keywords
- agentivity
- emphatic reflexives
- focus
- modification and part-structure modifiers